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PUERTO de la Cruz is going through majorchanges but certain elements of the transfor-mation are not pleasing everyone.

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Stone wall prompts public protest

More than 400 people tookpart in a protest march onOctober 26th to show theiropposition to part of the SanTelmo 1.5 million euros face-lift.It was described as “a humantide of people”.

They are unhappy that anhistoric wall bordering the walkis to be demolished to makeway for railings of wood andstainless steel.

Banners were waved with theslogan “Save San Telmo” as thepeaceful procession meanderedits way along the sea promenadeand a manifesto was read bothin Spanish and English.

Organisers, the citizen’splatform Maresia said it was timeto “defend the little heritage leftto us” and accused theadministrations of failing to listento them. They said the stone wallwas a symbol because itconnected Puerto to the past, aswell as acting as a provendefence to the waves. Instead of

being repaired, it should becleaned up and repaired.

Protestors made it clear thatthey are not against the majorityof improvements for Puertowhich already seem to be turningthe tide for its fortunes andattracting more visitors. There isno argument about generalbeautification of the area,replacement of street furniture,sanitation and beach clearance,renovation of building facadesand so on.

It is the stone wall which hasbecome the focal point of the“Save San Telmo” campaign,with the protest winning supportfrom other organisations such asVecinos por el Puerto, Si sePuede, United Left Canaria andPSOE councillors.

There have been more than2,000 complaints about theproject and an on-line petitioncalling on Cabildo president,Carlos Alonso to modify thework.

THE Canary Islands has delivered its strong-est message yet about what it sees as neglect,mistreatment and lack of funds.

A plea to the KingWill you help the Canary Islands?

President of the archipe-lago, Paulino Rivero is writingletters direct to the King andSpanish Prime Minister inwhich he will call for urgentaction.

He says the “indifference,irresponsibility and disloyalty”shown to the islands isunprecedented in the recenthistory of democracy.

Sr. Rivero also claims the“misunderstanding” of thesituation of the Canary Islandshas become a State problemand that they are becoming“increasingly further awayfrom Spain.” He also warns thatthis is going to get worse and

asks directly if the King isprepared to let this happen.

The Canary president hasspoken out on his personalwebsite and as at October 27th

when he made his comments,said he would be writing

“within the next few days”.He says the Canary Islands

have always been totally loyalyet believes the rights andneeds of its two million citizensare not being met.

“In the recent years,government departments haverefused the bread and salt tothe Canarians of the sevenislands,” he wrote.

Calling for specialattention, Sr. Rivero said thecurrent government seemeddetermined to break all thebridges of compromise,dialogue and collaboration.Now, their hand was beingforced because of theanticipated State budget for2014 and the unsatisfactoryamount the Canaries wouldreceive.

Meantime, Tenerife Cabil-do says the island needs 250million euros more thananticipated from the State tofinance important projectsand help create jobs.

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Farmers’ marketAT SANTA ÚRSULA TOWN HALL ESPLANADESaturdays / 8:00 am - 14:00 pm

STRIKE ACTION

TAXI drivers in the tourist municipalities of thesouth are to demonstrate against “countlesscases of intrusion”.

Airport lifts anger taxisThey say they are absolutely

fed up with airport trade beingtaken away from them andwere due to strike on October30th and November 15th as a

PROTEST PLANNED

LOS Cristianos is likely to see protests aboutthe ongoing unresolved issue of no sunbedson one of the beaches.

Fury continues oversunbeds

Some traders have askedfor permission to mount ademonstration to show theirdisgust at the situation whichhas seen the beach near theharbour without hammocksor umbrellas since thesummer.

Arona Council promises itis doing everything within itspower and expects a newcontract to be awardedshortly, either by the end ofthis year or in January.

However, business owners

in the open central zone saythis is not good enough andthat Los Cristianos is being“abandoned” by the authorityand tourists are goingelsewhere.

The service was suspen-ded in July as it had beenoperating for two years withouta proper contract. Traders saythis is causing the areaeconomic harm and that theiroffer to take over managementand provision of the sunbedsreceived no answer.

“SECOND BLOW”

UNIONS claim the new extended operatinghours at Los Rodeos will mean no cover be-tween 5am and 6am and say this is the sec-

ond blow following the withdrawal of medical serv-ice in January.

However, this has been denied by the airports authority AENAwhich pledges that if anything happened within this specifichour, it would be dealt with by 1-1-2 and the Consortium of FireBrigades.

Row over airport fire coverA row has broken out over fire-fighting provision at Tenerife’s north airport

protest.Various people have come

under fire, including privateresidents who charge around20 euros cash-in-hand for

airport lifts, hotels whichorganise pick-ups andtransport companies. These,claim the drivers, ignore theregulations and roam aroundthe island without anyoneputting a stop to theiractivities.

The taxi drivers have also

singled out councils for doingnothing about the complaintsand adding to their difficultiesduring the worst economiccrisis. As a result of theseintrusions, they say jobs arebeing destroyed and thelivelihood of 4,000 dependentfamilies threatened.

The new operating hours came into effect on October 27th

and are expected to bring a big boost to the economy andallow more flights and connections.

Unions say AENA is undermining the quality and speed ofthe response to any emergency at the airport and it is all downto privatisation and profit. They had already warned that loss ofthe medical service could cause serious harm to passengerswho required emergency health care.

AENA says it is actively promoting health cover at Los Rodeos,offering staff training and installing defibrillators.

WOULD you like to look at a product andthen decide what is the LOWEST priceyou would like to pay for it?

Sounds a dream but that is exactly what will be happeningat the new Worten store in M.C. El Trompo in La Orotava onSaturday, November 2nd!

As part of a feast of lower prices, a “reverse auction will beheld, during which customers set the price of the product onoffer. Those taking part will decide what they would pay andthe person who makes the lowest bid (provided it is notduplicated) in with a chance of getting it for the price indicatedon the coupon.

This will happen every hour throughout the day, with fourcoupons being drawn and the winners will be called.

This reverse auction will involve products such as tablets,laptops, TVs, consoles and major appliances. In addition, guestswill enjoy entertainment in store from DJs and a 20% discounton all Worten catalogue products (with the exception ofproducts already on promotion or with additional discounts).

You can find out more about the day, called “La fiesta delos precious bajas or “The fiesta with the lowest prices onwww.worten.es

Reverse auctionfun at Worten


PROTESTORS from La Laguna have been caus-ing rush-hour traffic congestion in the vicin-ity of the Alcampo roundabout.

TRAFFIC CONGESTION

Protestors taketo the streets

Residents from Las Chum-beras say they are fed upwaiting for action to replacetheir homes because of thepresence of aluminium whichcan cause serious healthproblems. They first took tothe streets two years ago andare blaming the authorities forthe delay in anything beingdone.

Two protests have alreadytaken place, with protestbanners and whistles, with thedemonstration causing traffic

tailbacks and delays.On October 30th, a meeting

is due to take place in Madridwhen it is hoped the situationwill be resolved once and forall. To coincide with this,another protest will take placein the same location.

La Laguna council, TenerifeCabildo and the CanaryGovernment would be willingto finance the first three to fouryears of the work if the SpanishGovernment contributed 50%of the total investment.

NEW PROTOCOL

A barrage of complaints has prompted the Ca-nary Government to act over nuisance selling calls.

The Department of Consumer Affairs is preparing a“protocol” for companies involved in telephone canvassingand will need prior permission to do so.

General manager, Gustavo Matos said harassment was on theincrease, with home owners reporting calls at unsociable hours,coercion and occasionally very aggressive attitudes. Theunwelcome approaches have also included abusive emails.

The government wants to protect people from such callsand describe their legality as “debatable” but concedes thereis a loophole in the law. It is hoped to use the Data ProtectionAct to put new rules in place, including immediately revealingthe exact name of the company and explaining how they gotthe person’s number.

Clampdownon nuisancecalls

“UNFAIR TREATMENT”

INCOME raised by Tenerife’s airports should beploughed back into the island, rather than off-setting AENA losses elsewhere.

Call to reinstate airport bonuses

This is the view of theCabildo which is also urgingthe Spanish Government toreinstate airport bonuses soas not to discriminate againstthe Canaries.

Changes in airport taxes

are expected soon andTenerife wants the specialfeatures of the archipelago’sairports to be taken intoconsideration.

Councillor for mobility,Manuel Ortega said these

bonuses were hugelyimportant. When they werein place, island tourismboomed but when they wereremoved in 2012 amid muchcontroversy, at least 21 routeswere removed and there wasa “devasting effect” on theislands.

Bonuses announced by thegovernment have left out the

Canaries but the Cabildowants them reinstated and“equality” applied. Withoutthe input of the ports andairports, the islands would beisolated from the rest of theworld and why shouldpeople here have to pay moreto reach the same point onthe mainland as others whogot cheaper travel?

RYANAIR has announced a number of “userfriendly” changes which seem to be goingdown well with Tenerife travellers.

Ryanair’s “puzzle”flies away

“About time too” and“thank goodness for that!” arejust some of the commentsbeing made after the airlinerevealed a new package ofproposals to be rolled in overthe next six months.

Acting on “extensivecustomer feedback”, chan-ges will include removingthe “security quiz” whichpeople used to wrestle withon website bookings (effec-tive from November 1st), a24-hour grace period tocorrect any minor errors suchas names or spelling, “quiet”flights and dimmer lightsbefore 8am and after 9pm,lower excessive baggagerates at the airports and 15

euros rather than 70 euros ifyou need to have yourboarding card reprinted.

One of the most welcomechanges is from December1st, Ryanair passengers willbe able to carry on board asecond small bag such as ahandbag or small airportshopping bag no bigger than35 x 20 x 20 cms which willallow a bottle of wine orequivalent to be carried.

Ryanair ’s chairman, Mi-chael O’Leary said they were“very excited at the signifi-cant improvements” as theycontinued their aim ofgrowing from 80 million to110 million customers perannum in the next five years.

SANTA Úrsula becomes a place of magic and illusion between Octo-ber 31st and November 3rd, courtesy of the third edition of “SuGuiño”.

This popular festival brings story-telling alive and is aimed at all ages, visitors andisland residents alike.

This journey to the world of fantasy is organised by the local council’s department ofculture and emerges art and literature.

The municipality will host stories told by “La Factoría de Cuentos” or “The Story Factory”,directed by Ernesto Rodríguez Abad and complemented by the artistic scenery of TahicheDíaz. These sets will provide the perfect backdrop for the stories which tell of magic,illusion, love and fear amongst many other emotions.

You will find project areas all around the town, including the main plaza of Santa Úrsula,Jardín Social, Casona de San Luis, Cine-Teatro Municipal, the Town Hall and the ParqueInfantil de Marcha.

The festival has been preceded with visits to schools, libraries, senior citizens and youthpoints in order to promote the habit of reading.

Everyone is invited to the shows and you can find more information onwww.santaursula.es, on Facebook culturasantaursula or by phoning 922301640 ext: 412.

Magical stories in Santa Ursula

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POLICE in Santa Cruz have warned about atrickster who is offering scrap cars for salebut then takes the money and disappears. TENERIFE and Costa Adeje are once

again at the forefront of using thelatest technology for tourism pro-

motions.At the push of a button, users of “Guideo” can

access tourist routes, culture and themes, as wellas maps in 2 or 3D. It is currently in App Store forApple devices but will soon be available for Android.

The Guideo app which provides augmentedreality is already available and running for routes inthe cities of Cadiz, Seville and Malaga.

This new application, a pioneer in the tourismindustry, made its debut in the Canary Islands andspecifically Adeje, given the number of visitors tothis area of the island.

Mayor, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga was joinedby various guests, including the creators Luis Lópezand Nadia Cervera, as well as Francis Ortis,representing Guideo in the Canaries.

PIONEERING LAUNCH

“Guideo”, a new option fortourism

Sr. Fraga said they were delighted to host the presentation of a great initiative and believed it would have significant interest fortourists.

The app has significant advantages, including being able to work off-line ie. not needing the internet once it is downloaded. It isalso available in Spanish, English and German and is different, modern, fast and easy.

Luis López and Nadia Cervera said Guidea was more than an application, it was a pioneering tool using augmented reality fortourism which would mark a change and a new option when visiting a destination.

POLICE ALERT

Trickster offerscars for scrap

They say at least sevenpeople have been stung by thefraud to the tune of 70 to 200euros each.

The man picks out victimswhose cars appear to bebroken down or damaged andsays he has contacts to getsimilar makes out of the policecompound. He shows fakedocuments and gives falsenames of police officers whom,he says, will help out with the

arrangements.The interested person then

pays up front and arranges tomeet the man again at a policestation or compound but hefails to turn up. When they askthe officials, they break thenews that it has been a scam.

Police have warned othercar owners not to fall for thistrick and to contact them ifthey have been defrauded bythe same man.

CALLS are being made for the south of Ten-erife to have a specialist care centre to helppeople with drug dependencies.

ADEJE PLEA

South needs ananti-drugs centre

Adeje council is alreadyleading the way with apioneering campaign to raiseawareness about alcohol anddrugs amongst young people.

The Mayor, José MiguelRodríguez Fraga said theprevention plan would work ina number of ways but a centrewould be a vital tool to helpthose affected and theirfamilies.

Adeje is hoping to championthe idea under the umbrella ofthe Canary Government.Health director, José DíazFlores Estévez was presentwhen the council launched itsaction plan for 2013-2016 who

praised the efforts being madethrough community groups,schools, parents etc.

A survey carried out overtwo years asked 400 teenagersof between 15 and 35 about anysubstance they might haveconsumed in the previous sixmonths. Some 53% hadsmoked cigarettes, 66%alcohol, 16.2% cannabis, 4.5%cocaine and 1.2% ecstasy.

The Adeje plan will aim toeducate and inform, raiseawareness, actions to avoidalcohol and drug taking,more training for profe-ssionals and greater guid-ance.

EL Médano, La Caleta, Playa de San Juan, Candelaria, Palm Mar, LosCristianos and Puertito de Güímar. All are beautiful places and have at least one thing in common; they are right by the

ocean. But they also share something else, according to a new report by the Centre for the Studyof Ports and Coasts – they are at potential risk of flooding from the tides.

Experts say they have identified 25 points across the coastline of Tenerife, involving a totalstretch of 22.2 kilometres. They are at El Llano-Casas de Abajo (Santa Cruz), San Andrés-Barranco de las Huertas (Santa Cruz), El Chorrillo (El Rosario), Las Caletillas (Candelaria),Candelaria, Los toscales de la viuda (Candelaria), El Socorro (Güímar), Puertito de Güímar(Güímar), Porís de Abona (Arico), San Miguel de Tajao (Arico), Urbanización Callao del Río-Cueva Honda (Arico), El Médano (Granadilla), La Mareta (Granadilla), Las Galletas (Arona),Palm-Mar (Arona), Los Cristianos (Arona), Las Américas-San Eugenio (Arona-Adeje), Playa deFañabé (Adeje), La Caleta (Adeje), Playa de San Juan (Guía de Isora), Alcalá (Guía de Isora),Los Gigantes (Santiago del Teide), Puerto de la Cruz, Barranco del Tanque-La Barranquera (LaLaguna) and Roque de las Bodegas (Santa Cruz).

The areas with the greatest coastline at possible risk are said to be Los Cristianos (almost fourkilometres at risk), Puerto de la Cruz (3.2 kilometres) and Las Americas-San Eugenio (3.1km).

The report, prepared for Tenerife’s Water Board, studied criteria from the last 500 years,including sea, tide and wave levels. Currently in its preliminary stage, it will now go out to publicconsultation.

POTENTIAL THREAT

Tidal risk at 25Tenerife locations

Cocainesales incityMan arrested

POLICE have ar-rested a man inhis 30s for al-

leged sale of cocaine inthe heart of Santa Cruz.

Patrol cars out and aboutaround dawn spotted a drugtransaction on the streets andlaunched a search for fivepeople believed to be in-volved.

One of them was arrestedand was found to have 100euros, coin dispenser andvarious packets of cocaine.

The incident happened inthe area of Calle Tomás deArmas Quintero.

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SANTA Cruz has paid a lasting tribute to formerpresident of the Canary Government, AdánMartín Menis.

In a moving ceremony, a street in the city within the area ofCabo Llanos was named in his honour.

The Mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez paid tribute to his life andwork and the “decisive role” he had played in the progressmade by the capital over the last 20 years.

Adán Martín died in 2010 but Sr. Bermúdez said his footprintwould live on for ever.

The ceremony was attended by his widow and children, alongwith family and friends, as well as many representatives of civicand institutional bodies.

MOVING CEREMONY

Street name islasting tribute

DOCTORS have expressed their absolute dis-gust at the advertising of “organs for sale”over the internet.

ORGANS FOR SALE

Disgust at“transplanttourism”

Spain’s National TransplantOrganisation (ONT) hasreported the matter to thepolice and says it wants a“zero tolerance” policy on thistype of practice.

Different body organs haveapparently been touted forsale on a known website, eventhough this is totally illegal. InSpain, it is against the law tobuy and sell organs and toadvertise or promote them inany way. If caught, culprits

face up to 12 years in prison.Spain has been a pioneer

across the world in detectingsuch crimes under what hasbecome known as “transplanttourism”.

It is said to be impossiblefor these sales actually to takeplace but the ONT says theauthorities have a legal dutyto act against these crimesand to take the toughestpossible stance on organtrafficking.

EXPATRIATES in receipt of UK pensions andbenefits may soon be contacted by the De-partment of Work & Pensions to confirm their

international bank details.

Alert overUK pensionpayments

From 31st January 2014, theDepartment for Work andPensions will need anInternational Bank AccountNumber (IBAN) and BankIdentification Code (BIC) inorder to make payments toexpatriates’ accounts in Spainand other Eurozone countries.This change is due to newEuropean Union regulationswhich aim to make paymentsbetween EU countries fasterand more secure.

The Department for Work andPensions (DWP) already holdsIBAN and BIC details for most ofits customers. But expatriateswhose details are not yet held bythe DWP will soon receive a letterasking for them.

Bank customers will not beasked to provide any furtherdetails of their accounts, suchas passwords. It is only theIBAN and BIC details that areneeded

If you receive a letter, youshould complete the attachedform and return it to the DWPas soon as possible, says theBritish Embassy in Madrid.

Failure to do so may meanyour payments will be stoppedbecause after 31st January

2014, banks in Eurozonecountries will not accept anyDWP direct payments withoutthese details.

You can get the IBAN andBIC details from your bankaccount statement or directlyfrom your bank.

Expatriates only need toprovide additional bankdetails if they receive pay-ments into a Eurozone accountoutside the United Kingdomand have received a letter fromthe DWP. Those whose pen-sion or benefit is paid into aUK account are unaffected bythis change in EU regulations.

Officials from the Depart-ment for Work and Pensionsare also reminding customerswho have changed address,and who have yet to inform theDWP, to contact the Interna-tional Pension Centre in New-castle-upon-Tyne on 0044 191218 7777 in order to make suretheir details are up to date.

For more information aboutthe change to European bankaccount numbers, visit theEuropean Commission web-site at http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/payments/sepa/index_en.htm .

THE Canary Government says it will be “ruth-less” with the Cepsa oil refinery in Santa Cruzit if fails to abide by emission levels.

CEPSACONTROVERSY

Air qualitypanels forcapital?

The Public Health Direc-torate believes there is a placefor the refinery in the capital,provided it abides by the rules.

There has been continuedcontroversy about the sulphurdioxide levels emitted fromthe Cepsa site. The CanaryGovernment says it is notpossible to one hundred percent link the relationshipbetween the refinery andincreased levels of mortalitybut it agrees there is a “higherprobability” of risk.

Department head, JoséDíaz Flores said they had beenvery strict with the refinery in2011 and in previous years andwould continue the samestance. SO2 levels generallyhad to be reduced for the good

of everyone. However, data forSanta Cruz, even with thepresence of Cepsa, did notdiffer from other cities, suchas Las Palmas in Gran Canaria.It was also not possible to showfor certain whether higherlevels of the gas in the onekilometre triangle around therefinery were directly down toCepsa.

All studies showed that thepublic authorities in Santa Cruzwere constantly carrying outair quality checks for thecapital.

One innovation being con-templated for Santa Cruz is tohave air quality informationpanels installed on the streetsto keep the public fully in-formed.

HOTELIERS in Tenerife are expecting “an ava-lanche” of Russian tourists and a recordnumber by the end of 2013.

They also anticipate that within the next three to four years, theRussian market will be the third or fourth largest sector for theisland, after the Brits and Germans.

The hotel employers’ association Ashotel predicts that thisyear will close with 200,000 Russians having visited Tenerife,mainly in the south. In 2012, the figure was 140,000.

Hotel staff are already being encouraged to learn the basics ofRussian.

For Russians wishing to visit Spain, Tenerife as destination issecond in popularity to Catalonia and some families are stayingto live here whilst the man of the family returns home to work.

The airport authority AENA says that between January andSeptember of this year, there were 110,741 arrivals from theRussian federation, compared to 63,696 in the same period of2012.

Island expectsRussiantourism record

A man in his 20s was arrested at Tenerife’ssouth airport for trying to smuggle heroin.

The passenger had arrived on a plane from themainland but was stopped in the arrivals hall when he showedsigns of nervousness.

A scan showed he had capsules in his body so he was takento hospital. In all, he had swallowed 110 capsules inside hisbody, with a total weight of 1.3 kilos of heroin.

HEROIN ARREST

Man swallows 110capsules

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A campaign is being stepped up in Adeje toeducate the public about recycling, keepingthe environment clean and responsible pet

ownership.

Adeje campaigngoes on tour

“Adeje, limpia y saludable”or “Adeje, clean and healthy”will involve a series ofcommunity meetings which willbe translated into English andFrench. The most recent washeld in Callao Salvaje andincluded a dog training display.

Environment councillor,Esther Rivero Vargas said theinitiative would include pos-ters, activities in schools,

meetings with vets, healthfairs, talks and Red Crossworkshops.

Four previously unemployedpeople will be helping withinformation and a volunteergroup is providing the trans-lations.

The campaign was launch-ed earlier in the summer bythe Mayor of Adeje and willlast for about two years.

TWO projects have been launched in LaOrotava to raise awareness about gender vio-lence and to give help to victims.

The local council has joined two major organisations, includingthe Canary Institute for Equality, and received a grant of 12,000euros.

Both initiatives began on December 1st and will end in lateDecember. One of the main priorities is to create awareness,not only amongst the public but to professionals directly involvedwith victims such as the police, social services and medicalstaff in health centres. However, there will also be activities inschools, neighbourhood associations, youth groups and witholder people. To this end, an outdoor professional will be broughtin.

The second part of the project will be to try and reduce oreliminate waiting lists and an extra psychologist will be hired.

Councillors have stressed how important this work is to adviseand sensitise the general population.

OROTAVA GRANTS

Helping victims of gender violence

THE two carnivals are the most important in Spain and are the only ones to hold the official title of“International Tourist Interest”.By coincidence, next year also marks the 30th anniversary of the twinning of the cities of Santa Cruz and Cádiz.

It is hoped to have several exchanges and collaborations and common activities in both locations. This will include exchangevisits, exhibitions and conferences. Sponsorship will be sought to keep costs to a minimum.

Councillor for fiestas, Fernando Ballesteros said it was a magnificent idea and a working group had been formed to discuss theway forward.

If you want to keep up with Carnival dates for 2014, see www.carnavaldetenerife.es

SANTA CRUZ EXCHANGE

Carnival twins with CádizRESIDENTS of La Orotava are being asked to

give their opinions on a new ordinance onthe behaviour expected in public places.

Getting tough onpublic behaviour

The proposals cover drink-ing, unauthorised street vend-ing, vandalism, anything whichdegrades the urban environ-ment, gambling and any othersort of action disrupting civiclife.

The local council sayseveryone has the right to enjoythe municipality ’s openspaces, whether it be a parkor on the street. Anyone caughtbreaching the rules could besubject to a fine although thefirst line of punishment wouldbe community service.

Councillors for public safetyand participation, NarcisoPérez and Maeva García said

the present police ordinancewas in many respects out-dated and as society hadchanged over the last century,updating was vital.

A draft document has beendrawn up which will go out forpublic consultation to groupsand community centres andwas being launched to neigh-bourhood associations onOctober 29th.

The full details are on thecouncil’s website of www.vill-adelaorotava.org and emailcomments can be sent topart icipació[email protected]. Thedeadline is November 30th.

A couple arrested by police in Santa Cruz wereable to steal from houses because they posedas Red Cross workers.

The man and woman, both in their 30s, had absolutely nothingto do with the organisation but pretended they did to gain thetrust of the home owners.

In one instance, they managed to gain access into an elderlylady’s property after saying they were with the Red Cross andwere there to give her help. They then stole jewellery, valued ataround 3,000 euros, but it was later retrieved.

In another case, the couple stole 475 euros from the home ofanother elderly person.

HOUSE BURGLARIES

Couple posed asRed Crosshelpers

ARONA Council has confirmed it is to start anew process of consultation to draw up ablue-print for the future shape of the munici-

pality.

CANARY APPEAL

Finca arrest

POLICE have arrested a man suspected of com-mitting at least nine robberies in fincas in thenorth of Tenerife.

It is alleged he broke into farm buildings and stole equipment,tools and copper wire, with a total value of 2,000 euros. Thedamage caused in the process is said to be around 10,000 euros.

Arona to startnew plan talks

A meeting was called inLos Cristianos last week toexplain the situation regardingthe recent annulment by theCanary Superior Justice Courtof the existing General Plan.

As expected, the CanaryGovernment has lodged anappeal against the decisionwhich was based on a rulingthat some of the land had beenallocated for future useswithout proper authorisation.

Arona’s Mayor, FranciscoJosé Niño said they had

decided to go-ahead with theconsultation process necessa-ry for the drafting of a newplanning document “whichsuits our economic model andthe times”. The new docume-nt, he pledged, would dealwith the needs and realities ofthe municipality.

The meeting was attendedby a large number of indi-viduals and representatives ofneighbourhood groups, bu-sinesses and tourism inArona.

Santa Cruz Carnival is to twin with its counterpart in Cádiz in 2014

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GRANADILLA is continuing its pioneering helpfor women suffering from breast cancer andaction to help prevent the disease.

Video to helpcancer battle

CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

On the occasion ofInternational Day for BreastCancer, the local council’sdepartment of health led byGuacimara González mannedan information stall in theGonzález Mena plaza. A videohas also been made featuringthe stories of how womenand men from the municipa-lity have been affected bycancer.

Granadilla is proud to be theonly municipality in the Canary

Islands to develop and offer aprogramme of physical thera-py and lymphatic drainage forwomen with mastectomies. Italso encourages self-examina-tion and visits to a gynaecolo-gist to help with the earlydetection of the disease.

You can watch the videoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IudlNGzZ_io#t andalso see http://www.granadi-lladeabona.org/ for informa-tion about activities.

RESIDENTS of Tegueste are being urged toget more involved in green issues.

Tegueste launchesgreen campaign

A major campaignwill be conducted throughoutOctober, November andDecember, aimed at schools,community groups andresidents.

The local council wants toraise awareness about care ofthe environment, from theimpact of discarded litter andempty bottles to how to dealwith invasive plants and theneed for planting new trees. Itis hoped people of all ages willget more active and join invarious projects.

Students from severalschools will take part in

reforestation of the Finca LaOrilla area of Anaga and havetalks about the bird populationwith some releases into thewild.

The invasive plant rabo degato or cat’s tail is causing aparticular problem and tips willbe given as to how to control itand remove it properly.

The campaign will alsoencourage more recycling,energy saving, the use ofenvironmentally-fr iendlyproducts, picking up dog messand generally respecting theenvironment to everyone canenjoy it to the full.

TRADITIONAL cuisine to the most avant-gardehelped to make the 2013 edition of the AdejeTapa Route another huge success.

TAPAS ROUTE

Adeje produces winning dishes

The initiative helps to fostermore business for localrestaurants and bars, as wellas introducing visitors andlocal people alike to tastessuch as a strudel of grilledgoat’s meat. This was thewinning dish created by TascaDon Alfredo as voted for bydiners. Second place went toRestaurante Rambla with“North and South”, combiningsalmon with prawns, whilst inthird was La Tasca Italianawith an open roll of cara-melized onion with goat’s

cheese and a sweet and soursauce.

Prizes and certificates wereawarded by Adeje’s economicdevelopment councillor,Ermitas María Moreira andpresident of the CanaryHospitality Federation, JoséAntonio Santana. They praisedthe 62 participants in thisyear ’s edition and alsopresented prizes such as freemeals and a weekend for twoon El Hierro to tapas routevisitors who filled in the scorecards.

THE Santa Cruz areas of Tagananaand San Andrés should be recog-nised as villages in their own right.

The city council is being urged to approve thecall from the municipal group of CC-PNC-CCN andthe Socialists.

The motion says that despite the closeassociation of San Andrés with Santa Cruz deTenerife since 1850, it retains its own deep-rootedidentity. This is reflected in its architecturalheritage, culture and sports, including the church,tower or castle and quay.

The same is said to apply to Taganana, affiliatedto Santa Cruz since 1877.

The proposal says both communities havecounted on local facilities such as police, acemeter y, Justice of the Peace and CivilRegistration, together with the preservation oftraditions, customs and craftwork.

SEPARATE VILLAGES?

Bid for “pueblo” status

ADEJE has been twinned with the Spanish town of Riveira since 2002 and is proud of the friendshipsestablished during that time.

Those links were renewed in a ceremony in Adeje when representatives of both locations celebrated the transfer of asymbolic cross to a new site on the roundabout opposite the Municipal Football Ground. The act was part of the Adeje fiestaprogramme “Tradition and Modernity”.

The “Cruceiro” was given to Adeje by Riveira to mark the official twinning on October 18th, 2002 when it was agreed to carry outcultural exchanges and promote closer collaboration between the people.

Adeje’s Mayor, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga said the act was reaffirmation of what had been a beautiful story of encounter and co-existence between the two communities which actually dated back to 1996.

He said it was nice to think that the cross overlooked Adeje but that 1,750 kilometres away was Riveria. The position of the crosswould remind people that Adeje had open arms to welcome everyone and to build good roads for the future in a complicated world.

Representatives of the Galician town said they valued the twinning arrangement and the cross was one of their most cherishedsymbols.

Adeje honours twinning with “open arms”

LOCALNEWS



FURTHER major improvement works are to becarried out on the roads in Los Llanos,Granadilla council has pledged.

Paving of calle Las Marreras is now complete, answering callsfor action from residents. However, the department of publicworks says this is only phase one of a larger project in the area ofAltamira-1. Attention will now turn to calles Las Marreras, RincónCanario and Ficus.

Tarmac will be followed by further improvements, such as theinstallation of irrigation, drainage and rainwater collection andprovision made for the replacement of street lighting, electricityand telecommunications pipes, in addition to road marking.

FURTHER WORK

Road pledge atLos Llanos

WORK to remodel the Plaza de la Catedralin La Laguna is to honour the present aswell as the future.

NEW-LOOK SQUARE

Plaza payshomage to past

Under an agreement withthe university, the council haswelcomed experts from thearchaeology department to thesite.

Councillor responsible forworks, Jonathan Domínguezsaid: “It is a guarantee and aprivilege that experts on historyand archaeology can give theiradvice and be consulted aboutany questions which mightarise in the course of this projectto reclaim this iconic space inthe very heart of the city.”

Remodelling of the plazabegan on September 30th with

an estimated duration of threemonths and seeks to improveaccessibility, aesthetics andpublic use of this central area.It is costing 866,373.79 eurosand will include restoration ofthe old stone benches in thesquare, resurfacing andmaintenance of all the trees,whilst retaining its originalcharacter.

At the request of variousgroups, some sort of waterfeature is also being discussed.Ducks which used to be thereare being moved to a new andmore appropriate location.

LA Orotava wants to boost its Farmers’ Marketto bring more people to the town and helpagriculture.

OROTAVA’S BID

Bringing newlife to farmers’market

A number of new initiativesare being planned, includingspecial promotional cam-paigns and encouraging localhotels and restaurants to buylocal produce.

The council, through theeconomic development coun-cil, is spending 6,600 euros onthe project, which includeshiring a manager.

One of the aims will be toincrease the appeal of themarket and what it sells,

making sure there is always agood supply of interestingproducts.

In these difficult economictimes, more people in LaOrotava have gone back to theland, livestock and crafts tomake a living.

“The market needs arelaunch which is why we haveit a priority to contribute thisgrant and lend maximumsupport,” said councillor forthe area, Felipe David Benítez.

LOS Realejos has once again pledged its com-mitment to linking tourism to sport.

The Mayor, Manuel Domínguez said they appreciatedthe need for the natural landscape to present the best possibleimage for visitors.

His comments were made as improvement work on theRambla de Castro footpath nears completion.

Sr. Domínguez thanked Tenerife Cabildo for helping to makethe project become a reality and said they would continue tofight to make other improvements to natural parts of the town.This would be for the benefit of local residents, tourists and allthose who enjoyed outdoor pursuits – he felt Los Realejos wasthe “perfect place”.

FOOTPATH PROJECT

“Perfect place” fornature pursuits

GUITAR for beginners, sign language inSpanish, traditional dance, patchwork, jew-ellery and advanced computers.

These are just some of the 16 new courses being offered bythe People’s University in San Juan de la Rambla this winter.

Registration is now open and a lot of interest is expected,particularly for “Introduction to Photography” which lasts forthree months and includes theory and practice.

There will also be workshops to encourage children to readmore and how to make Christmas desserts.

These courses are open to anyone in Tenerife. Details areavailable on www. sanjuandelarambla.es where there is alsoa suggestion box for potential new courses in 2014.

SIXTEEN OPTIONS

New coursesopen to all

PUERTO de la Cruz council has given the go-ahead for more improvements which willenhance the look of the centre and provide

better facilities for pedestrians.

LATEST PROJECT

Facelift for threePuerto walkways

Three small pedestrianwalks which link Calle LaHoya with San Telmo are to betackled as part of theRegeneration of TouristSpaces.

The paving here hasdeteriorated and the designneeds to match that of theadjoining streets, together withimprovements to the street

lighting, bins and furniture.The project will cost

181,290 euros and take abouttwo months to complete.

Councillor for urbanisation,Sebastián Ledesma said theywere very disappointed thatthere had been vandalism inthe area and that some workscreated by César Manriquehad been destroyed.

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BLACK TIE DO A HUGE SUCCESS.

On Saturday, 19th October we held our first Black Tie PoshFrock do at Vivo, Playa de las Americas. We were entertained bythe world-class Bitter and Twisted, then later by Marc Craig onthe terrace and the full house totally enjoyed the evening. Wewould like to thank the team at VIVO, Lorna Eade, Neil Kenny,John Sharples, Barry Pugh, Barry Sparkle and all the other stafffor helping us to raise a fabulous amount of almost 1,000 euros.

The ladies looked very glamorous, the gents were turned outwell, the show was awesome as always and the food hot anddelicious. Many thanks to all who donated the many raffle prizes;Viana Shows for tickets to the History Show, Balu Los Cristianos,Restaurante Margarita Los Cristianos, Claire McIntyre the groomer,Liana Lovie the artist, Poochies Pet Hotel, Petex Boarding andPet Travel Specialists, FM Perfumes, London Look, Bee Dazzled,Angel Art, Revs Motors, RaggisBagz, Samantha Talamantes, ThisWay and That Excursions Mrs Jean Blake, Siam Park and CoastFM and Vivo Decades.

And lastly, many thanks to all who supported this event – wehope we gave you a good night.

LADIES’ DAY!!!

We will be having a Ladies’ Day at Blue Luna Cafe, LosCristianos on Sunday 10th November from 2pm. There will be afashion show, clothes & jewellery sales, name the perfume (snifftest), slink-off (best would-be model), topless waiters, maledancer (you can keep your hat on), cha cha cha line, salsa demoand the lovely Silvio (playing music to swoon to). Chocolatecake auction, prizes, raffles, games and cocktails. Come downand have a rather sophisticated afternoon out.

ADEPAC REFUGE, NORTH TENERIFE

We were very sad last week to learn of the sad situation facing

Live Arico pets animal welfare supports (PAWS)the Adepac refuge in the north of the island. Money owed by theauthorities has not been paid and they found themselves in aterrible situation, without food, water or electricity. They quiterightly shouted it from the rooftops and the water and electricitywere re-instated but their 500 dogs were coming to the end ofthe food supply. We were able to send 1000 kilos as an emergencymeasure and as a result of an appeal, we will be able to helpfurther. Their situation is deplorable and we must do all we canto allow those dogs to live with dignity. We already raised 727euros in a matter of days, which includes the raffle proceedsfrom the Black Tie event last weekend, so we can pay for the1000 kilos already sent. We are now “in front” so will ask Yahairafrom the refuge how best to donate the surplus cash. This will bean ongoing appeal until the situation is resolved and they needyour help. You can make a bank transfer to La caixa accountnumber 2100-7071-43-22-00043610 Concept SOS ADEPAC or byPaypal to [email protected] or in cash into any of our charityshops. PLEASE SAY IT IS FOR THE DOGS OF ADEPAC REFUGE!!

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TENERIFE Sur Lions Club was very pleasedwhen Wingate School, Cabo Blanco in theSouth of Tenerife once again agreed to par-

ticipate in this prestigious Lions International PosterCompetition to represent the south of Tenerife.

WORLDWIDE PEACE POSTER

COMPETITION

The competition encoura-ges young people to thinkabout peace and creativelyexpress what it means to themand to share their own uniquevision with the world sospreading peace and interna-tional understanding.

The posters are to beevaluated on three criteria ateach level of judging, orig-inality, artistic merit andexpression of the theme “OurWorld, Our Future.”

Tenerife Sur Lions Club hasfor many years fostered avibrant youth involvement inour community, especiallywith holidays for underprivileged and handicappedchildren.

The Club President NormanGoodall MBE, his wife Ednaand Lion’s member Margaretwere part of the judging teamalong with Shelby Healey, artteacher at Wingate School.

Because of the number andquality of the entries the judgesdecided to provide an addi-tional two highly commendedawards.

The local winner was -Claudia Funegra with the twohighly commended awar-ds going to Jayesh Khanwaniand Charlotte McArdle.

They were each presentedwith their awards during theMorning Assembly to much

applause by the rest of thepupils present.

The winning poster willnow been sent to Madrid to bejudged again, where thewinning entry will go on torepresent Spain in the finalselection to find the overallInternational Winner.

There is an InternationalGrand Prize of five thousand USdollars which the winner willreceive, plus a trip with twofamily members to a specialaward ceremony in the UnitedStates of America. There willalso be twenty three meritaward winners each receivinga certificate and cash award offive hundred US dollars.

Special thanks go toWingate School and all thosechildren who gave their timeand effort to make this eventsuch a memorable occasion.

You can view past inter-national grand prize winners atwww.lionsclu-bs.org. LionsClubs Interna-tional is theworld’s largest service cluborganization with more than1.35 million members in 208countries and geographicalareas around the world. Since1917, Lions clubs have aidedthe blind and visually impairedand made a strong commit-ment to community service andserving youth throughout theworld.

SUNDAY 20th October was the Harvest Celebra-tion in All Saints church Puerto de la Cruz.

News from All SaintsChurch

Before the serviceBritish School of Tenerife inPuerto and St Andrew’s Schoolin El Sauzal collected foodwhich will be shared betweenSanta Rita, Los Hermanos dela Cruz Blanca, Probosco in LaOrotava & Madre Redentor inEl Sauzal. These are all localcharitable organisations strug-gling to feed those they carefor. The food was displayed inchurch together with otherfloral decorations. After theservice, the congregationjoined in a buffet lunch on thepatio.

Rev. Mike Smith, Chaplain,

said, “It was wonderful to seehow much food was collectedat a time of great need in ourlocal community. Often thecharitable organisations are theones that struggle. As well asthus one-off special collection,the Church at All Saints collectsfood weekly to support projectsrun by the Cruz Roja”.

The next special event in AllSaints Calendar is a Car BootSale on Saturday November 2ndat 11.30 am. On Sunday 3rdNovember there is a joint servicewith the German LutheranChurch celebrating All SaintsDay and Reformation Day.

First visit to localrepresentatives

The new British Consul Charmaine Arbouin and Vice ConsulHelen Keating had a meeting with local representatives ofchurches, charities and other organisations on her first visit to thesouth held at the Paradise Park Hotel in Los Cristianos

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TWO members of Tenerife Family Church are doing a craft day and all are invited. It is achance to get together with fellow craft minded people and have fun together. Irene Bruceand Christine Hoban have many years’ experience teaching crafts and between them have had

a go at lots of crafts. There is a resurgence in crafts, knitting, baking, recycling and time shared with others, can bring support to people who

are wanting to have fun and company working together. There will be the chance to watch demonstrations and shareideas and see if there is demand for further craft sessions. If you don’t do crafts right now, come along and see how easysome of them are to do. It is hoped this group will be a support group for isolated people in need of a new challenge amongcaring people.

Our Christmas crafts days is planned on the 6th November from 11 to 2 in the church at Costa del Silencio, in thebasement square of Coral Mar. Please bring a packed lunch with you. This will be announced in church on two consecutiveSundays, but if you want to join in the fun just ring Chris on 922 738490 and leave your name and telephone details, so thatthey have an idea of the numbers of people wanting to come. Unfortunately there is not flat access to the church, and sopeople with walking problems will find the stairs difficult to negotiate. It might be possible for a home group to be set upfor anyone wishing to go, but not able physically to do so and that would be at ground level. Until they have had feedbackabout numbers Irene and Chris can not plan anything further at this stage for the disabled, but are aware that the need forcompany and fun is particularly relevant to those people.

Craft day to foster friends and fun

COMMUNITYNEWS 487 TENERIFE NEWS I 1ST NOVEMBER TO 14TH NOVEMBER 2013

COMMUNITYNEWS


LAS Palmas is to have seven Carnival nightsduring the celebrations for 2014.

Countdown to LasPalmas 2014 Carnival

Details of the “Worldof Fantasy” have recently beenreleased by the Cabildo andorganising committee andonce again, hundreds ofthousands of people areexpected.

There will be 21 eventsbetween February 15th andMarch 7th, including the sevenCarnival nights in the SantaCatalina park and the return ofthe official proclamation of theprogramme in the plaza ofSanta Ana. This was thetraditional venue for a decadeand will once again resoundto the invitation for everyoneto join in on February 15th.

Organisers say they havedeveloped a programme aftertalking to various sectors of thecommunity and which willappeal to all.

Most of the festivities willtake place in the Santa Catalinapark, with the return of oldfavourites, restoration of othersand some new innovations.Special attention is being givento events of a family nature.

There will be three bigweekends of celebrations,with street musicians,bands, the Carnival Queenselection, grand parade,drag queen competition,“Carnival of the Sun” onMarch 4th, body paintingcontest, grand parade andBurial of the Sardine onMarch 8th. The three Sun-days will also see majorevents for children.

The full programme isavailable on http://www.lpa-carnaval.com including a fullday by day run-down of events.

CANARY ISLANDSNEWS

BUSINESS leaders on El Hierro are confidentthat the island is recovering after two yearsof the volcanic crisis.

El Hierro isbouncing back

Tourism and the primarysector are said to be the maindriving engines of theeconomy and some restau-rants, shops, bars and divingcompanies which had to closeare starting to reopen.

President of El HierroCabildo, Alpidio Armas saidthe general economic situa-tion was considerably better

than two years ago when theunderwater volcano began toshow signs of its subsequenteruption. It had not yet reachedthe same level as before thephenomenon.

Sr. Armas said the Cabildowas working hard to increasethe tourism sector in the “short,medium and long-term” andwas designing a strategic plan.

WINGATE School have collected bottle topsfor a couple of years now. This was to helpa little girl called Ainara, from San Miguel,

who was born with cerebral palsy and needs 24hourcare. The tops are a way of raising money.

Help Ainara

PUPPY LOVE

ACCION del Sol has again seen an influx ofabandoned puppies, all too young to be away from their mums and all needing regular

bottle feeds so again the refuge staff are all work-ing very hard.

Update from Acciondel Sol

If you have an hour or twospare and would like tovolunteer to help, then pleasedo visit the refuge Monday -Friday 3pm-6pm. There are somany dogs that would love awalk , brush or even just someattention and fuss as well asthe many puppies that needbottle feeds.

A date for your diar y isSunday, December 8th which isgoing to be a fun filled day atthe refuge and “Santa” haspromised to pay a visit whichis always enjoyed by thechildren. More information tofollow shortly.

Don’t forget, if your schoolchild would like to take part inour singing competition, theymust be aged between six and18 to participate. Please callMarion on 922778630 for moreinformation. There’s a list ofgreat prizes for the winnersincluding hotel accommo-dation in Barcelona or Madrid,tickets for Loro Parque andSiam Park and much more, sodo be sure to participate.

Trevor and Rosie Bull whoadopted Rico six months agocouldn’t resist adopting“Ronnie” from the refuge . Hehas settled in extremely wellwith his new four and twolegged family. Rico is delighted

to have a new friend to playwith.

Accion del Sol has againbegun in earnest its educa-tional programme with moreand more schools partici-pating and visiting the refugewhich can only help in thefuture to improve the welfareof our furry friends and maybealleviate some of the awfulsuffering that occurs on ourisland of Tenerife.

The Director of Accion delSol Marion Köpke DeGonzälez is always happy toshow people around therefuge and answer anyquestions you may have soplease do come and visit.

Please call 922778630 formore information or if youwould like to help out inanyway. Towels and blan-kets are always needed forthe dogs if you have any tospare. They would be verymuch appreciated by ourfour legged friends. Therefuge is situated at PoligonoDe Industrial Estate,Granadilla, Exit 51 on theTF1, directly next to ITER theParque Eolica where thewindmills are and it is opento the public Monday - Friday3pm-6pm.

THERE are a few places left for our paella partyon Thursday 31st October for which you canpre-choose fish or meat, the cost is 15 euros

and will include wine and soft drinks. We have acouple of musicians coming along to entertain us.

On Thursday 7th November there is to be a talk on the visit tothe Island by Agatha Christie, this coincides with Agatha Christieweek in Puerto de la Cruz. It will be presented by Ken Fisher. Asusual we will follow the talk with a Buffet Lunch, wine etc. Theprice is €6 and will commence at 12 noon.

The Library Ladies who Lunch at Petit los Angeles on Tuesday5th November is now fully booked. Ladies look out for our nextlunch early in the New Year.

Tuesday 10th December is the date for our pre-ChristmasLunch for members and friends. This year it is being held at theMazaru Apartment Hotel in La Paz.

It will be a Buffet with wine. Tickets are now on sale at 14 euros. As previously mentioned, this year we are holding a Grand

Xmas Raffle, There are some excellent prizes, tickets are now onsale and they will be drawn at the Library on Saturday 14thDecember at 12 noon. Your committee is now working on datesfor events in the New Year, which will include a Pantomime, aGuest Speaker and our ever famous Hog Roast. So watch thisspace.

Lastly please don’t forget the Red Cross dry grocery collectiontrolley still in the entrance to the Library. A big thank you to thepeople who are still contributing but unfortunately they arebecoming fewer, sadly the poor and needy souls in the area arenot.

We look forward to seeing you at these functions and hopethat you will enjoy them.

Library news flash

THE Lions Club of Santiago del Teide held theirannual Gala Charity Night on 12th October2013 in El Marques, Puerto de Santiago.

Supported by over a hundred guests and with the generoussponsorship of a number of local companies, they raised 3000euros. This money will be spent on providing food and basicnecessities for many local families suffering in these harsheconomic times, as part of their ongoing programme that startedin October 2011.

As always the buffet was magnificent and brilliant entertainmentwas provided. The talented guitar duo, Nexo, and the incredibleMr Ryan East.

The highlight of the evening was an auction for a very rare 1981Single Malt Whiskey kindly donated by Mr David Urquhart. Anincredible 500 euros was the winning bid made by local resident,Mr Richard Thornley.

If you would like to know more about the activities of the Santiagodel Teide Lions Club, please visit their website on:www.santiagodelteidelionsclub.com or follow them on facebookunder “Lions Club Santiago del Teide”.

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Keep saving the bottle tops- to help Ainara, and others likeher.



CANARY ISLANDSNEWS

A marathon event held each year on La Palmahas become so iconic that registrations for2014 are already at the two-thirds mark.

TRANSVULCANIA SUCCESS

La Palma eventhits iconic status

The Cabildo says it isthrilled at the success of “LaTransVulcania” which in 2013generated 3.8 million euros fortourism and the businesssector.

It has been described as“the best ambassador of theisland worldwide” and isrecognised as one of the mostimportant and prestigiousmountain runs in the world.Every year, it attracts elite

sportsmen and women whopushed themselves to theirmental and physical limits totackle the gruelling 83.3 kmUltramarathon.

The success of the event,sponsored by sports brandSalomon, has also fostered thecreation of at least 20 newtrails on La Palma so the sportis growing in popularity yearafter year.

In 2009, the TransVulcaniaattracted 278 runners. Thisrose to 540 in 2010, 922 in2011, 1,413 in 2012 and 2,480in 2013. Already, there havebeen 2,390 enrolments for2014, with the maximumnumber of runners set at 3,200.

The event also brings inunprecedented publicity forthe island and overall, the spin-off income equates to 18 eurosfor every euro spent on theorganisation.

The 2014 TransVulcania ison May 10th and once againfeatures a number of shorterraces over and above the 83.3km challenge. These includea marathon, half marathon,junior half marathon, kids’event and walks so that peoplecan get to know the island in amore leisurely way.

Further information isavailable in English onwww.transvulcania.comwhere on-line registrationscan be made.

ROBBERS who tied up a married couple intheir 70s after breaking into their home onGran Canaria spent two hours trying to open

a safe.The crime happened in Maspalomas where the gang

apparently waited until the man and his wife went to bed. Theythen forced their way into the property through a window, wearinghoods and gloves to avoid identification.

The couple were in bed and were bound with tape, gaggedand threatened. One safe was opened after they demanded thekeys but they then spent two hours using a saw to prize open thelocks on another.

Eventually, they got away with a massive haul of variouscurrency, including 200,000 euros and 12,000 dollars and asignificant amount of jewellery and watches worth more than60,000 euros.

However, later that day, police made five arrests and most ofthe stolen items were recovered, together with cocaine andhashish found when another house was raided.

COUPLE GAGGED

Gang sawed safe open

FUERTEVENTURA expects to open the first mu-seum dedicated solely to cheese in November.

An old mill is being converted as part of a 675,154 eurosproject which will include a visitor centre, inter-active touchscreens, knowledge games and other items which involve directparticipation.

Cabildo president, Mario Cabrera recently toured the premisesand stressed the great importance of the facility on an islandwhich can trace its cheese history to before the conquest. Notonly had cheese-making survived, it has prospered and becomeone of the hallmarks of Fuerteventura culture.

Visitors will learn about the processes involved, the island’s

FUERTEVENTURA PROJECT

First cheese museum toopen soon

goat breeds, its climate, livestock industry and economic importance. There will also be cheese tastings.There are more than 50 cheese brands on Fuerteventura which have enormous tourism importance as well. Each of the cheeses

has its own characteristics and flavour.

LA Gomera is often described as “a paradisefor hikers” and a special event before Christ-mas will show you why.

DECEMBER ROUTES

New walking festival on La Gomera

The island’s tourism depart-ment has teamed up with theCanary Federation of Moun-taineering and local clubs tostage La Gomera Hiking

Festival between December2nd and 6th. It’s the first eventof its kind on such a grandscale.

For a week, lovers of out-

door activities can enjoydifferent routes across sixmunicipalities led by profe-ssionals.

There will be walks everyday, ranging from 8.9km to17.7km and taking in suchbeautiful locations likeHermigua, Targa, Tazo, LasCasetas, Las Creces andCuevas Blancas.

A highlight of the festival willbe the second Regional HikingMeeting on Saturday,December 7th . The route willbe take in more than 40kilometres over a variety ofstages designed forindividuals, depending ontheir physical condition (from10.5km to 40.5km).

This event will take thewalker through some of themost spectacular scenery of LaGomera, from San Sebastianto Vallehermoso through thestunning Garajonay National

Park.The whole festival – with its

slogan of “Let’s go Gomera,walking together” will becomplemented by other ac-tivities, including gastronomyand culture.

Entries are now being invi-vited on http://www.lagome-rahikingfestival.com/

THE Catholic Church in the Canary Islands is to invest around 80,000euros in 20 restoration projects.These will be in churches and parishes in Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Gomera and La

Palma.Various art pieces will be restored to their former glory, including beautiful picture panels in the

San Telmo ermita in Puerto de la Cruz.

Restoring church artefacts


VICTIMS of a car scam in Gran Canaria notonly lost out financially, they could have suf-fered serious accidents, say police.

THE Cabildo of Gran Canaria has pledged itsfull support to projects to create two airlinesoffering flights between the archipelago and

Africa and Europe.

TWO VENTURES

Gran Canariawelcomesairline plans

Tourism chief, MelchorCamón said one of them couldstart operating before the endof 2014 and it would be a greatboost for the island’s connec-tivity.

He said the Cabildo wouldgive its backing for bothventures following meetingswith representatives of bothconcerns and, in his view, theywere very serious and solventpropositions.

Sr. Camón said one projectcame from former directors ofMarsans and Travelplan andwould operate flights betweenthe islands and the mainland.He understood operationscould start very soon andwould be backed by entre-preneurs.

The second project, alsopromoted by a Canary com-pany Islas Afortunadas Airlineswould seek to have connec-tions not just with Spain butalso with several African and

European countries.He said both were very

interesting as the more low-costseats which could be offered,the easier it would be to get inand out of the Canaries.

The promoters of both hadasked for “spiritual” support sothey could spread the wordabout their plans and help withbusiness contacts and futurepromotion campaigns.

Mileage scam

Massive carfraud in GranCanaria

Hundreds of people arethought to have fallen victim toa widespread fraud whichinvolved the deliberate turningback of mileage clocks.

In one case, the purchaserthought his car had done59,240 kilometres but laterdiscovered the true mileagewas 142,00 kilometres.

A network involved in thescam was last week brokenup by the National Police andeleven suspects arrested. It isreported that six dealershipswere involved.

The huge police operationalso netted 500,000 euros incash and more than 100 cars.

Some of the car clocks wereturned back as much as150,000 kilometres to increasetheir market value. A policespokesman said this also

constituted a danger to driversas parts of their car would notbe as efficient as they originallythought and therefore couldhave lead to malfunctions,breakdowns or seriousaccidents and injury.

One of the victims raised thealert after trying to resell a carpurchased from one of thedealers allegedly involved. Theclock had been turned backnearly 100,000 kilometres.

Police believe the scammight have started in 2011.Cars were often purchased asex-rental cars from otherislands and then shipped overto Gran Canaria where anexpert would tamper with theclocks. They were then soldon at a price lower than themarket norm to beatcompetitors.

Efforts are to be stepped up on La Gomera to promote the island’swines.The Cabildo is allocating 8,000 euros so that more events can be held, including tastings

and representation at various fairs.Wine-growers had sought additional help because of the difficulties they are going through in

the current crisis.La Gomera is intent on making sure its wines do not disappear and want the brand to be

recognised more at a local and regional level. All efforts will be made to keep the traditionalvineyards on the terraced slopes and to safeguard and create new jobs, especially for youngpeople.

Training will also be supported and it is planned to twin with growers in Lanzarote.

Fighting for La Gomera wine

A video of an organised dog fight in Lanzarotehas led to the questioning of five people, fourof them minors.

LANZAROTE ARRESTS

Dog fightpostedon internet

The Guardia Civil was calledin after the fight was posted onthe internet. Police said thevideo showed a series of eventsin which two dogs wereallegedly encouraged to startfighting each other and eggedon once they started to do so.

The Civil Guard’s naturesection, known as Seprona, hasimputed one adult and reportedfour children, all of Spanishnationality.

Such behaviour mayconstitute an office against theflora and fauna of the landwhich could lead to prison ofbetween three months and ayear, in addition to a ban onany trade or business relatedto animals. The dog owneralso faces prosecution forbreaching the rules ofownership of dangerous dogsand the protection of domesticanimals in the Canary Islands.

TOURISM officers from Lanzarote have beenholding meetings “around a kitchen table” topromote the island in Germany.

The novel table-cloth approach was used in Düsseldorf andMunich to highlight all the attractions of the island, including itscuisine.

Lanzarote wants to reinforce its position in the competitiveGerman market and some 38 travel agents will soon be travellingover on a familiarisation trip.

Representatives from Lanzarote Tourism presented a visualtour of the island to show some of its most picturesque cornersand its exquisite gastronomy.

Councillor for tourism, Carmen Steinert said that even thoughGermany was an established market, it was essential for Lanzaroteto be present at such events and to hit home its unique anddifferent attractions.

TABLE-CLOTH APPROACH

LanzarotereinforcesGerman market

THE 1-1-2 Emer-gency Co-ordination Centre for

the Canary Islands ishelping to cut lives lostin road accidents.

A new survey shows thearchipelago is following atrend already identified inCatalonia, Valencia andMadrid.

The study looked atstatistics between 1998 and2009 and concluded there hadbeen a gradual lowering of thedeath rate in road crashes.This is attributed to the expertcare provided by 1-1-2 and theco-ordinated rescueoperations, together with thehigh level of knowledge thephone operators have.

In the Canaries, the 1-1-2service responds to a trafficaccident within 15 to 17minutes on average, fallingwell within the “golden hour”aim and therefore significantlycontributing to the survival rateof the wounded.

EXPERT RESPONSE

Caraccidentdeathscut by1-1-2

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LA PALMA FIGURES

TOUR operator Thalasso says it is “satisfied”with an 80% summer occupancy of its charterflights connecting the island to Paris.

French marketstill flourishesFrench holiday-makersare still in love with LaPalma

Cabildo president, Guada-lupe González Taño said thishad exceeded expectationsand showed that La Palma wasa desirable destination forEuropean tourists.

The French visitor mainlyseeks “peace, rest and a mildclimate”, usually travels as partof a family and has an averagedaily expenditure of 130 euros.This is the highest spend of allmarkets and a high percentage

enjoy nature and hiking, keyattractions of the island.

Thalasso-Ô Voyages isconsidered the “Canaryreference” in the French mar-ket thanks to a strong aerialpresence and a wide range ofhotel products.

The Cabildo president saidthey had all worked very hardover the last two years onpromotions in France whichwere now bearing fruit.

HASHISH ARREST

A crackdown on drug consumption in schoolsis to continue on Gran Canaria. The latest arrest involved a 19-year-old who was selling

hashish inside a college in Las Palmas. Police said he had enlistedthe help of a student at the same school. The arrested teenagerwould pass stand at the front door and pass the drugs to the otherperson to sell inside. He is believed to have given him at leastnine packages.

The operation was part of the master plan for improving theschool environment and safety, aimed at eradicating drugtrafficking and consumption.

Drugs soldin school

TENERIFE CONNECTIONS

THE successful company is Caflaja SL, the onlyone to submit a proposal. It will connect theport of La Estaca in El Hierro to Tenerife

seven times a week.

Caflaja wins new El Hierro routesThe Canary Government has awarded the maritime connectionof El Hierro for 18 million euros

Minister of Public Works forthe Government of the CanaryIslands, Domingo Berrielsigned the award last weekafter the connection wasdeclared a Public ServiceObligation. The contract will beformalised once the Ministry issatisfied that the companycomplies with all the require-ments necessary to provide the

service.It means Caflaja SL will

exclusively operate betweenthe two islands until 2017 andreceive 18 million euros. Inaddition, if the contract isextended for two more years,it will be at a rate of 4.5 millioneuros a year.

The government hopes thisexclusivity will provide islan-

ders with a regular and stablemaritime connection, both interms of days of the week andin regard to schedule andfrequencies, including a directconnection on a Monday withSanta Cruz.

This connection is one of theroutes offered by Caflaja whichpledges six connections to andfrom between La Estaca andLos Cristianos. Saturday will bethe only day of the week not tohave a service but there will betwo on a Monday, including theone to the capital.

In total, the company willmarket 9,244 seats each week.Of these, 1,322 correspond tothe capacity of the boatoperating to Santa Cruz whilethe daily connection, minusSaturday, will have 550 seats.

Once the contract is finalised,Caflaja SL will endeavour tointroduce the new routes assoon as possible.

There have long been callsfor improvements to theconnection between El Hierroand Tenerife, particularly by ElHierro.

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ALMACENES Pérez Ávila at Las Chafiras reallyis the most beautiful of stores and has to beyour first port of call if you are looking for

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PRODUCTS FOR ALL

A home store with style

It’s one of those places whichmakes you say “wow!” whenyou go through the doors andyou are tempted to buy a greatdeal more than what youcame in for.

The stock here is continuallyrenewed to keep up-to-datewith the fashion trends for yourhome. There’s a wide rangeof glass ornaments, exoticfigures, lamps, paintings,artificial plants, picture frames,bath towels, bathrobes, rugsand accessories, tableware,glassware, cutlery, tea andcoffee services, everything youneed to dress your table or totransform your terrace orgarden into a warm spacesuch as candles, lanterns, etc.

The linking thread with allthe products is quality, designand affordability. AlmacenesPérez Ávila works with nationaland international brands suchas Arcos, Ibili and WMF andalways offers the latest trendsin shapes and colour.

If you love your kitchen, this isalso the place to head for if youwant new equipment. You willfind everything you need withattractive designs, in the latestmaterials and the top brands.Pots, pans, pastry trays, a wideassortment of cook-ware, all tohelp make cooking the pleasureit should be and to create themost gorgeous of cakes.

This is also the place forthose interested in the world ofwine with a wide selection ofglasses of the most varieddesigns, whether for cham-pagnes or burgundies, andeverything from special aircorkscrews and decanters tofunnels and thermometers.

For your chairs, there arewonderful cushions in allcolours , items for outdoor

living, bedroom and living roomcarpets in rattan, coconut matsetc. Add to this table runners,carpets and curtains and youhave everything to bring newlife and colour to your home.

Almacenes Pérez Ávila also

sells occasional furniture,stools, mirrors, consoles andkitchen cupboards. Furthermore, if there is something youwant and it’s not in store, thestaff will endeavour to get it foryou.

Obviously, with Christmasapproaching, you will find lotsof lovely things for the festiveseason, including tree andtable/candle decorations and

practical gifts. Red and goldremain the Christmas colourstars but check out the beautifulmauves and pinks and the cupcake tree novelties! There isalso table-ware, cups and wineglasses with Christmas motifs.

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SPANISH PROPERTY OWNERSHIP WITHIN A UK LIMITED COMPANY

There is often confusion between a UK Limited Company and an offshore Company. A UKcompany is not classed as offshore, and in line with EU treaties, UK Companies cannot be chargedthe 3% annual tax that offshore companies have to pay in Spain. Following the 2008 UK Finance Actand Budget the Directors of a UK Limited Company are no longer subject to “Benefit in Kind” Taxon the ownership of foreign property. A further advantage of the UK company structure is the abilityto offset certain expenses such as council tax bills, maintenance/upgrades, car hire and flight costsfor the Directors when travelling to and from Spain.

SELLING THE SPANISH PROPERTY

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A Spanish Will shields you from Spanish IHTThis is incorrect as a Spanish Will can often complicate matters as it may conflict with an earlier

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Don’t inform the Spanish authorities of a death for 4 ½ yearsWaiting 4 1/2 years before notifying the authorities of the death means that the Statute of Limitations

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The memories and viewpoint of twoCanarian ladies from AgachePART V

By Loraine Guy Loraine recounts the book of “Lost lifestyles and traditions of the Agache Region in the 20th Century”

I wonder if many readers from the UK remem-ber the 1950s and if so do they have any memo-ries of the wooden tomato boxes that used to

be shipped into Britain, each one emellished with acolourful advertising label and where every tomatowas individually wrapped in crinkly paper? If youdo remember, chances are that those tomatoes hadcome on a slow boat all the way from the CanaryIslands and more than likely from Tenerife.

One lady who could havehelped you to make thattomato salad back then is GoyaJosefa Chico Diaz who wasborn in Agache in 1937 andwho, as a child, started to workthe tomato plantations at theage of 12.

“There were two tomatocrops a year, one which wecultivated in winter on the“coast” (just above the level ofthe present motorway) to catchthe sun and the other at thelower end of the village ataround 500 metres where weplanted in April. At that timeall the land at these levelsbelonged to just the one ownerbut as tomatoes were in suchhigh demand abroad anefficient production systemhad to be devised. Hetherefore allocated a largepiece of land to any family whoasked for it, he would thensupply the plants, fertilizer,pesticides and water whilst thefamily put in the manpower.Then once the harvest wasfinished the profits weredivided 50/50 and that was thedeal.

The first job was for thefamily to clear the land of anylarge stones and lay themaround the edges of theallocated field forming a smallwall and then dig up longstraight trenches ready for theplants. Then around lateJanuary along with my brotherand sisters we would all walkto the landowner’s enormousfinca in the village to collectthe hundreds of 3-metrebamboo canes needed for thecultivation. We would put anold sack on one shoulder forprotection and then pile onto it

as many canes as we couldmanage and then drag themall the way down the dustyfootpaths to our plantation. Itwas about a one-hour walkand I remember throwingdown the sticks with a hugesigh of relief once we arrivedonly to be told to go up againand bring down some more!We sometimes had to do it 4times in one day which wasexhausting! The next stage wasto set the cane structures up inthe trenches, first two caneswere tied in the middleforming an X and this wasknown as the “burro” (donkey)and between these burroswere tied four canes on eitherside ready to support thetomato plants. Next came thetask of bringing down thethousands of seedlings fromthe nursery in the villagewhere they were put into boxesfor us to carry down. Bear inmind that each family musthave had around 4000 plantsbecause I remember that weused to have crops of some12000 kgs. It was customaryfor other families to help eachother out at the crucial time ofplanting, so that this was donefast and efficiently and evenwith a certain rhythm. Waterwas allocated to each familyonce a fortnight and it waschannelled from an absolutelymassive tank at a higher level.You were told the time thewater would arrive and thismeant controlling the length ofthe channel from the tank toyour field to make sure no-onewas filtering your water ontotheir land. (Infact this systemof irrigation where you areallocated a certain time of

water still applies to manyfarmers in this area.) Once thewater started pouring into ourfield we had to quickly assistthe flow with the help of hoesto spread the water evenly andavoid flooding. As the plantsgrew we nipped the youngshoots and tied the stems withwet rafia to the canes tosupport them. For our lunch weused to set up camp in a nearbycave, make a small fire to boilup some potatoes togetherwith the inevitable gofio whichkept us going.

On the days I wasn’t neededand before I was 12, I was ableto go to the little village schoolwhere we were some 40children of all ages with justthe one teacher. There wasquite simply a blackboard acouple of books and some

pieces of paper with the timestable on them. Maybe it wasn’tmuch but I learnt to read andknow my tables better thanmany children do nowadays.I also developed a passion forreading and used to go to alittle store in the village centrewhere the lady rented outnovels for a very small fee. Iparticularly loved the romanticnovels describing such distantexotic places and lives andmany a night I would stayawake reading them by thelight of a flickering paraffinflame. When I was sixteen Ifound a leaflet advertisingembroidery lessons bycorrespondence and decidedthat maybe this would be a wayof making a better living awayfrom the rough world ofagriculture. I had saved a little

money and bought the course.Each month I would get a littleparcel sent from the Spanishmainland with instructions anda piece of material on which Iwas to practice certainstitches and send back tothem. They then me my markand further instructions until Ifinally got my certificate ofwhich I am very proud. Atseventeen I then bought a newsewing machine on credit andthe repayments depended onwhether I could earn enoughfrom the tomato harvest – thisgave me some sleepless nightsbut I got there in the end andwent on to start a small sewingschool in the village at a laterdate.

When it came to the time ofpicking the tomatoes, the longhard walks began again. Wewere each given a boxweighing 30kg to carry up tothe village on our heads whichI hated. The only way I couldfind to get through these haulswas to day-dream. One daythat sticks in my mind was

when I got so carried away inmy fantasy of being a very richlady living in the lap of luxurythat I walked straight past thepacking shed some 500metres before realising mymistake. To escape in mymind was the best way toescape from the hardship.Once in the packing shed usladies worked in shifts forendless hours in order to sort,classify all the tomatoes beforewrapping them individuallyand putting them into the littlewooden boxes which werethen nailed down, loaded ontothe lorry and taken to thedocks ready for shipping.

Through the years though,my luck changed and with myhusband we went intobusiness, worked hard anddid very well. Like so manypeople I have suffered somevery hard and sad times but ifI stop a minute and think backto my childhood years andnow look at all the comfort andluxury around me maybe mydream did come true after all!

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Ryanne’s Corner

YOU don’t just sit back and watch the “His-tory of Music”; the show comes alive andtakes you on a magical journey through

time.For two and a half hours, you are transported back

through the ages to be reconnected with some of the world’sfinest music to date. From classical compositions, to WestEnd shows, right through to modern day pop, anything ispossible. The show dates back through the centuries,reflecting music’s most powerful and legendary music.

So to start the show off, a trip back to 1800s began withRichard Strauss’ ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’. The stage isthen taken over by a choir of singers along with the orchestrasurrounding the stage. The choir softly started Carl Orff ’s‘O Fortuna’ from 1936. The stage was transformed into amedieval theme, a large circular screen on the main stageplaying a mixture of burning fire, water again reflecting thetheme. In popular culture today, this iconic piece has beenused a variety of times, the best known being the X Factor.This piece of music sets a dramatic theme as it is loud andattention- grabbing. ‘OFortuna’ is one of myfavourite classicalpieces as it has verypowerful connotationsand you can just get lostin the song. Theorchestra and choirtogether created abeautiful version of thesong.

The orchestra alongwith pianist Erica workscleverly together,pouring emotion intoeach piece. Theycontinued to take usthrough the classicalcomposers includingBeethoven, Mozart and Olympic favourite Ravel’s ‘Bolero’.‘All I ask of you’ from Phantom of the Opera gives you thefirst real glimpse at the magnificent costumes and make-up. A tribute to silent movies of the 1920s, sound-trackedon a black and white reel on the screen, gave a flash backof what films were once like and how music alone cancreate a story. “History, The Musical” then continues to digdeeper in providing the best throughout the years includingRay Charles, Frank Sinatra and ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ by thelegendary Elvis Presley which helped build the lead up tothe ‘swinging 60s’ along with Chubby Checker’s ‘Twistagain’. These years have seen the introduction of classicswing and early rock n roll but now the sixties have arrived.

What better way of introducing the sixties than with oneof the greatest and most influential bands of the rock n rollera. Have you guessed? Yes it is the Beatles. They wereintroduced on the screen with early footage of them visitingTenerife for a holiday back in 1963. The tribute to the Beatlesbegan with a medley of their most known songs, as howcould you simply choose one. These included ‘I wannahold your hand’ ‘Hard day’s night’ and ‘She loves you’. Allthe singers and pianist Erica came back on stage to helpsing the anthem song of the Beatles ‘Hey Jude’.

After the interval, it was back with a bang with anotherselection of world famous bands. Queen’s ‘We are thechampions’ kicked off the next part of the show, playing onthe circular screen clips of all major sporting legends,celebrating the different sporting champions all over theworld. From 1971-1991, Queen brought us many wonderfulhits. This then went on to introduce another style- changingband, the Rolling Stones. Here we saw ‘Mick Jagger’wrapped up in England-attire singing ‘Satisfaction’.

Music is life, the lyricsare the story

Getting into the rock n roll era, next up was Deep Purpleand Status Quo with the iconic biker look throughout the60s and 70s. A motor biker drove through the stage anddressed full in leathers ready to sing ‘Whatever you want’and ‘Smoke on the water’. This I think is the ultimate andbest air guitar song ever. This then led us out of the seventieswith Rocky’s theme tune ‘Eye of the Tiger’, it then easedinto the rock n roll 80’s seeing Van Halen’s ‘Jump’ andSwedish band Europe’s ‘ The final countdown’. Thechemistry between the singer, guitarist and keyboard playerwas simply amazing; they are all extremely multi-talentedartists.

The big pop hitters from the likes of Tina Turner, Prince,Elton John, Abba and Gloria Gaynor also made anappearance as expected. The mixture of music, acrobatsand theatre that was seen more through the more modernday music pieces added to the atmosphere and will befamiliar to any fans of big West End shows. The acrobatsgave truly outstanding performances and were incredibleto watch. The strength and courage they had wasindescribable

The lighting and clever choreography in particular wasgreat for the spectacular Pink Floyd scene which saw therecreation of the band’s famous set pieces, including thebuilding and demolition of “the wall”. After the final interval,the king of pop himself was introduced Michael Jacksonand his famous ‘Thiller’ zombie dance was performed.Celine Dion’s ‘My heart will go on’ was up next, everyoneknows the heart-breaking tale of the tragic love story ofTitanic. Then all of a sudden, the acrobats appeared toshow their skills off to a slow motion Matrix-style fight sceneto the ‘Chariots of Fire’. They had so much talent in theirfingertips.

Coming close to an end, they reached today’s musicwith songs from Coldplay and Adele. The end section thenwent into Queen’s ‘Who wants to live forever’ as dedicatedto all the musicians that had gone too soon. This includedsome of music’s finest artists: Queen’s frontman FreddyMercury 44, Bob Marley 36, Jimi Hendrix 28, Janis Joplin27, Kurt Cobain, 27, Elvis Presley 42, John Lennon 40,George Harrison 58, Michael Jackson 50, Jim Morrison 27,Amy Winehouse 27 and ended with Whitney Houston 48and ‘I will always love you’.

The show itself gave the multi-talented musicians achance to shine and the acrobats showed of their skills inseveral different ways. The creator and director Eric Vianadeserves great credit and I hope the success continues toshow the world the true meaning of the history of music.

You can see The History of Music at the MagmaCentre, Costa Adeje (www.magmatenerife.com/

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Q: I am resident in England but I have property inboth England and in Tenerife. I have heard that thereis no double-taxation treaty between the UK andSpain in respect of Inheritance Tax and I am there-fore worried that my children will have to pay twolots of Inheritance Tax on the Tenerife assets. What isthe legal position?

A: The rules governing payment of Inheritance Tax ineach country are not particularly clear and numerous‘experts’ appear to be giving incorrect advice.

The starting point for any estate following death is thatInheritance tax is payable in the country of residence /domicile. For a UK domiciled individual, the situation is asfollows. As a general rule of thumb, residency will beestablished in the country that you spend more than 6months of the year in (in this instance, the U.K.).

On your death, as you are U.K. resident, Inheritance taxwill firstly be payable in the UK on your worldwide assets.In addition, Spain will also charge Inheritance tax, but onlyon the Spanish based assets because you are not residentin Spain.

Now most countries in Europe have ‘double taxationtreaties’ in place, which state that if you pay the sametype of tax in another country, your home country tax officewill give you a credit for any amount of tax you have paidoverseas. This basically avoids being taxed twice on thesame asset(s).

For most of the important taxes, the above doubletaxation exemption is covered by a 1974 treaty betweenthe UK and Spain. This covers income tax, corporation taxand capital gains tax, but it does not include inheritancetax. The reason for this is that Spain actually chargesinheritance tax to each beneficiary receiving a gift, whereasthe UK directly taxes the estate of the deceased beforedistribution is made to the beneficiaries. Hence, becausethe parties paying the tax are different in the UK and inSpain, the tax offset is not possible under the treaty.

However, there is a solution to this problem. Section 159of the Inheritance Taxes Act 1984 contains a provision called‘Unilateral Relief ’. This states that where ANY tax isimposed on property passing by inheritance, and that taxis similar in nature to the UK inheritance or lifetime gifttax, then the UK Taxman will allow a credit in the amountalready paid to the Spanish taxman on assets located inSpain against the tax also owed to the UK Taxman on thoseSpanish assets.

The principle here is that the tax credit is given in respectof the actual assets being taxed, regardless of who actuallyhas to pay the tax.

It must also be remembered that the tax credit broughtover from Spain can never exceed the tax amount payablein the UK on the Spanish assets (i.e. you could never claima rebate).

For only 50.00 euros we offer a consultation to assess yourcircumstances, discuss making a Spanish or English Will and

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AS the Spanish government seeks to increasetax revenue, it has set its sights firmly on offshore assets. This particularly affects expa-

triates living here as they tend to own assets out-side Spain, although it has also caught out Spanishnationals

The tax authorities have been building up their arsenal tofight tax evasion. The international move towards automaticexchange of information will now provide much more dataon undeclared or misrepresented foreign assets and income.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with owning assetsoutside Spain, but you do need to ensure you fully declarethem according to Spanish legislation. It is also worthreviewing your assets, with the help of an experienced taxspecialist, to ensure they are in the most tax efficient vehiclesfor Spain. In spite of all the measures to increase tax revenue,Spain can still provide tax advantages for UK nationals livinghere if you have the right advice.

Residents of Spain are liable to tax on their worldwideincome and gains. Worldwide assets also need to be assessedfor wealth tax.

The government is aware that some people who meet theSpanish residency criteria do not declare themselves as such.The tax agency, the Agencia Tributaria, has been crackingdown on this, for example by looking through utility bills andlists of foreign children registered in local schools.

Over the last couple of years we have been hearing moreevidence that the tax authorities are using information receivedfrom abroad and writing to residents suspected of havingundeclared funds abroad, in order to bring this money intothe Spanish tax system.

A Voluntary Disclosure Procedure, a type of tax amnesty,was available last year to encourage taxpayers to regulariseundeclared assets.

As reported by Expansion this July, the Agencia Tributaria isfollowing this up by sending official requests to those who

Spain andoffshore assets

used the facility, asking for proof of the source of the fundsdeclared or clarification on discrepancies with the dataalready on file. The requests are more numerous and detailedthan before. Regular taxpayers are also being targeted.

The article concluded: “It is clear that offshore assets arebeing targeted for full investigation.”

The government promised to get tougher after the amnesty,and at the end of October 2012 published its new anti-taxfraud law. This included the obligation to report all assetsand rights held outside Spain on Form 720.

According to the general guidelines of the 2013 Tax ControlPlan, the tax office will look at taxpayers who did not submitForm 720, but who appear to conduct transactions abroadthat imply that they do have assets and rights outside Spain’sborders.

Speaking in May, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that131,411 taxpayers had submitted Form 720, declaring assetsworth €87 billion.

According to GESTHA, the union of tax inspectors, this is avery low number since there are around 2.6 million foreignresidents alone, the group most likely to have overseas assets.

This was reported in an article on the Sur in English websiteon 12th June 2013. José María Mollinedo, Secretary Generalof GESTHA, told the newspaper that this was a failure of thegovernment’s awareness campaign for foreign nationals, manyof whom did not find out about the obligation on time.

He said the government will now “seek to focus more onforeign residents in Spain, especially those from the US andthose from EU member states”.

Spain has signed an intergovernmental agreement forautomatic exchange of information with the US under itsForeign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). EU Directives,soon to be widened, also provide for automatic sharing ofinformation.

Along with its fellow G5 members the UK, France, Germany

and Italy, Spain announced a new pilot scheme for themultilateral, automatic and standardised exchange of taxinformation in April. The Ministry of the Treasury pointed outthis would also enable checks on information related tooverseas assets.

In September the G20 pledged to introduce automaticexchange of information as a global standard.

All in all, it is really only a matter of time before the authoritiesdiscover undeclared foreign assets.

With the new asset reporting rules, the penalties for non-disclosure can be devastating. The tax authorities effectivelyhave no limit as to how far they can go back to assess tax.When you add the various tax rates, penalties, interest andfines, it could add up to more than the value of the asset.

While this all sounds very worrying, it need not be. Withexpert professional advice you can structure your assets to beboth tax efficient and fully compliant in Spain, and so thatForm 720 need not be such a concern in future.

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Brian Eldridge’s Puerto Diary

IT was just over a month ago, when all of a sud-den, trucks filled with rocks and rubble startedto trundle their way out of Puerto.

Parking, library, walkways and bollards!THE LATEST HAPPENINGS IN PUERTO

At first, I thought they hadstarted on the new port. Acrazy idea I know for had astart on that project beenimminent, the local autho-rities would have beenblowing their own trumpets forweeks preceding it. After aday of witnessing the constantflow of these vehicles, ofcourse, curiosity got the betterof me; I just had to find theirsource. To be honest, it wasfairly obvious, there being onlyone organisation locallywhich would have sufficientresources to fund such anoperation, so I made my wayto Punta Brava to see whatLoro Parque was doing now.

The answer is an extensionto the existing car park, twomore levels; the final solutionto the parking problems, theclaim. The easy option wouldhave been a multi storey,which is in principle exactly

what they are doing, exceptthe two extra levels are goingunderground. A sensiblemove I think, out of sight is outof mind, or, if they can’t see it,they can’t complain about it.There have of course beensome comments about theproject on local forum sites butmost have been centred on thepiece of ground which hasbecome a temporary car parkduring construction.

Many visitors whopreviously had no problemsparking are probably wonder-ing if indeed the work isnecessary. Yes, it is, as duringthe summer months and moreparticularly at weekends, theparking has provedinadequate, forcing visitors toseek out parking spaces in thesurrounding streets. Even then,this was not really theproblem; there is plenty ofspace in the streets,

particularly behind theParque. The problem hasalways been the team ofunauthorised, aggressive andthreatening parking touts whooperated in the area, quiteopenly and seemingly

unhindered. So I applaud LoroParque for tackling the realproblem and hope their carpark extension is the solutionto it.

Meantime, has the long-awaited San Telmo make-overstarted? No, it hasn’t. But whyare barriers blocking most ofthe walkways? They are therepurely for the constructioncompany ’s convenience.With the Calle La Hoya projectfinished, well almost, you canbe forgiven for thinking thearrival of the barriers haveheralded the start of SanTelmo, which despiteassurances that it would startthis year, now seems unlikelyto. So it seems the ‘keep thesea wall’ and the ‘replace itwith an ugly fence’ debate isstill to be resolved.

No, the barriers are there,unbelievably for ease ofaccess to the threepassageways which allconnect Calle la Hoya to thenow ill-fated San Telmowalkway. They are themselvesnow undergoing their own

make-over. It is a separateproject; it has its own budgetand its own time-frame ofthree months, to almostinevitably over-run. Why? Itdefies all logic. The time totackle these passagewayswas surely while Calle la Hoyawas under construction,when ease of access wasguaranteed. Instead thebuilders’ skips sit a gooddistance away from wherethey are needed, so the rampsin San Telmo are used toaccess them, rendering themout of use to the generalpublic. The irony is that one ofthe eventual aims is toimprove access to the area forthe disabled; the reality is tounnecessarily and prema-turely restrict it.

I often walk past the newlibrary just to keep an eye onany progress. Actually,perhaps I should rephrasethat. I often walk past thebuilding which will even-tually house the new library.A library without books canhardly be des-cribed as one

and of course, the purposebuilt building still sits lonely,largely ignored, empty andcompletely devoid of books.However, the bollards thatl ine the building haveundergone some changes inappearance and have in myopinion, suffered in the nameof art. Not a recent changeto be honest but I have put offmy comments in the hope itwas in fact graffiti, which thelocal council would eventuallypaint over. So is it art or blatantvandalism? I will leave it upto the individual to decide. Ifor one am happy to be calleda philistine when it comes toall things ‘art’ related. Be it apainting, a sculpture, or anyother art form, it needs to bereadily recognisable, tomean anything to me. Thesebollards have the appearanceof having had paint literallypoured over them. Is thisreally an art form or just anincompetent painter, with aver y unsteady hand? Nopoints for guessing what Ithink.

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Cameron in new bid to cut European legislation

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has successfullypersuaded the European Commission to take a new initiative toremove red tape which he believes is hampering businessesacross the European Union.

The Prime Minister praised the Commission for doing anexcellent job in repealing 6,000 pieces of legislation since 2005but called for more to be done.

Mr Cameron has his own business task force team and ithas now made 30 recommendations to make life easier forcompanies and reduce their costs further.

The new initiative has the support of CommissionPresident Jose Manuel Barroso, German Chancellor AngelaMerkel and the Prime Ministers of Poland, Finland, Sweden, theNetherlands, Italy and Estonia.

Action would often mean removing 28 sets of nationalrules for the member countries and replacing them with just oneset all could adopt.

Speaking at a meeting in Brussels, Mr Cameron explainedthat there were practical reasons why this was necessary in thedigital age.

The Office of National Statistics in Britain gave the PrimeMinister a boost on Friday when it announced that GDP was 1.5per cent ahead of the same period last year. Manufacturing andhouse building contributed to the improved figures.

Newspapers fear press regulation

THE British press has long been a benchmark for freedom ofinformation throughout the world, but that has been threatenedby the industry’s own behaviour and the telephone hackingscandal in particular.

Britain’s three main political parties have at last come upwith proposals for a new system of press regulation. It is now 11months since the Leveson inquiry into press standards.

The latest proposals for amendments to a royal charterestablishing the new rules were designed to placate thenewspapers, but they still have deep reservations and a group ofpress freedom organisations from around the world have writtento the Queen expressing concern.

If the charter is approved by the Privy Council it could besigned by the Queen this week.

Former News International chief executive RebekahBrooks and former News of the World Editor Andy Coulson facetrial this week in connection with phone hacking allegations andalleged payments to public officials.

Prince’s message to fire fighters

WHILE Britain has been suffering from severe stormy weatherover the weekend and the rain has been hammering down ithas been a very different story in Australia with volunteer firefighters battling serious bush fires in New South Wales.

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has made acontribution to the Australian Red Cross to help support peopleaffected by the bush fires. The Prince met some of the firefighters at Bondi Beach last year and they are now fighting thebush fires around Sydney. Many people have lost their homes.

Health bosses earn more than Cameron

A CULTURE of excessive pay and pay offs in Britain’sNational Health Service has led to Health Secretary JeremyHunt warning senior staff that their actions are “unacceptableand unjustified.”

Forty eight senior figures earned more than the PrimeMinister and Mr Hunt is likely to impose a cap on the numberof managers earning more than £100,000 and limit figuresupon which redundancy packages are calculated.

He said in the Daily Telegraph that the health serviceneeded a collective reality check to avoid making the samemistakes as the BBC, where excessive pay and pay offs haddamaged public confidence in the institution.

Interest rates to rise in Britain?

THE clearest indication yet that interest rates are to rise inBritain was given by the Bank of England which has upgradedits growth forecast and believes unemployment will fall morequickly than anticipated.

Economists believe the first rate rise will occur at thestart of 2016, but some traders believe it could be earlier. Thebank’s Monetary Policy Committee is widely expected to respondto a surprisingly sudden pick-up in economic prospects.

Monkees’ singer Davy Jones dies

MANCHESTER-born lead singer of the 1960’s band TheMonkees, Davy Jones, the son of a railway fitter, has died inhis sleep at his home in Florida aged 66 following a massiveheart attack.

The first ‘manufactured’ band, the Monkees werebrought together for a television series in 1966 and werepopular on both sides of the Atlantic. They had four numberone albums in 13 months.

Three of the bands original members, Jones, MickeyDolenz and Peter Tork, reunited for a series of gigs last year.

Arsenal stay top with Palace win

ARSENAL beat struggling Crystal Palace 2-0 to stay top ofEnglish soccer’s Premier League. Palace are without a managerfollowing the resignation of Ian Holloway last week.

But there are signs that Manchester United, who havemade a poor start to the season under David Moyes, are gettinga bit of their old metal back. United beat a stubborn Stoke 3-2 onSaturday and it was a typical Old Trafford comebackperformance.

The pick of the Sunday matches was the clash betweentitle contenders Chelsea and Manchester City, with Chelseahaving a little bit of luck and running out 2-1 victors

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The little fish who became a legend

TRUTH, it is said, is often stranger than fictionand the fascinating tale of Ronnie Biggs, thecarpenter-turned-Great Train Robber who

became a cult figure is one of them.

By Rita Sobot

For me, however, there areoften “stories behind thestories” and 56-year-old MikeGray, an advertising designerfrom Kent is one of them.

Anyone who spotted Mikeon his recent holiday inTenerife might have thought thetee-shirt he was wearing,emblazoned with the face ofRonnie Biggs and the slogan“200 Questions on the GreatTrain Robber”, was just anovelty. Something won in aquiz perhaps or after buying acertain number of beers.

But no, this is not the case.Mike, who is also an author,has become a personal friendof Biggs who is now 84 andvirtually unable to walk orspeak because of ill health anda succession of strokes.

This isn’t because he is anext-door neighbour or that hecomes from the criminalfraternity. Quite the opposite.In one of the books co-writtenby Mike, he is described as acompletely “straight” man withno connection whatsoever tothe Great Train Robbery oranything since.

What is so fascinating aboutMike’s story is that he becamefriends with Ronnie Biggscompletely by accident some25 years ago in the verystrangest of circumstanceswhich you feel must have beenfate.

I met up with Mike inTenerife, together with his wifeLita, to chat about his latestpublications ie. “The RonnieBiggs Quiz Book” and “101Things you didn’t know aboutthe Great Train Robbery”which add to his first 2009book about Ronnie, “The InsideStory”. This was written whenBiggs had returned on avoluntary basis from Brazil andwas serving the rest of hissentence in Britain. Mikewanted to write about what he

and many others felt was agreat injustice, that a man whowas ill and was no danger tosociety was being keptincarcerated, often hand-cuffed to his hospital bed.

Amazingly, Mike’sassociation with the Great TrainRobber began when he didn’teven realise it. He justhappened to be in the wrongplace at the right time or theright place at the wrong time,whichever way you look at it.

Mike’s father used to be aprison officer at Wandsworthwhere Biggs was starting a 30year sentence for his part in theGreat Train Robbery of 1963and they lived just opposite.The Royal Mail train wastravelling between Glasgowand London when, on August8th, a 15-strong gang of robbersintercepted it and got awaywith more than 2.6 millionpounds (the equivalent of 46million pounds today).

Biggs had been in prison for15 months when he escapedover the prison wall, jumpinginto a furniture van and theninto a get-away car. Mike, thenaged nine, witnessed all thecommotion, as did a youngfriend who was even closer tothe scene and was locked in acoal cellar as a result!

“At the time, I didn’t thinkanything much of it,” Mike toldme. “Security in the prisonwasn’t like it is today andprisoners were always esca-ping. I didn’t even know it wasRonnie Biggs. I hadn’t evenheard of him.”

Roll the clock on to 1974when Mike, aged 17, wasstudying English and journa-lism at school. His teacher toldthe class to watch the newsthat night, pick up a story andresearch it. Mike did just thatand was amazed that theheadlines were about RonnieBiggs who had been disco-

vered living in Rio de Janeirobut could not be extraditedbecause his Brazilian girl-friend was pregnant. It wasthen that Mike also saw thefootage of the original 1965prison escape opposite hishouse! Ronnie had originallyfled to Paris and then toAustralia before settling inBrazil.

Needless to say, Mike’sproject was a huge success,with his tutor telling him to“keep hold of this, it will makeyou famous one day.”

From there, his fascinationwith the Ronnie Biggs storyescalated and he wouldcollect anything and every-thing to do with the Great TrainRobber. But the story was totake another twist. Mike put anadvert in a London newspaperasking for cuttings, which wasduplicated free of charge in aBrazilian paper. A few weekslater, he received a letter froma local man saying he wouldsend local articles if Mikewould send him Thomas theTank engine tapes because hewas a Beatles’ fan and it wasnarrated by Ringo Starr.

Despite being sceptical,Mike did just that – “I wasworking in Woolworths at thetime, it cost me 25 pence but Ithought it was worth theinvestment!” – and also sent asecond batch a few monthslater. At one stage, he heardnothing but then a letterarrived, not just with cuttingsbut Ronnie’s personal phonenumber as a special thank you.

Mike recalls the first timehe phoned Ronnie Biggs in1989 who asked him: “Whattook you so long?” and that waswhere their long associationthrough regular phone-callsbegan. Mike would often sendRonnie hard black liquoricewhich was something hecraved and was planning togo to Brazil to meet him in 2001when Ronnie and his son,Michael told him not to come– they were coming back toEngland instead.

Space doesn’t allow me torelay all the stories andanecdotes Mike told me aboutwhilst Ronnie was in Brazil buthe said the Great TrainRobber ’s 150,000 poundfortune had long gone, he wasskint and had to rely on otherpeople’s generosity and oftenhosted “Meet Ronnie Biggs”parties. There were also twoattempts to kidnap him.

Mike said Ronnie cameback to England because hewas very ill and wanted to beon home soil. His greatestwish was “to walk into aMargate pub as an Englishmanand buy a pint of bitter” but hishealth deteriorated evenfurther when he was sent backto prison. Mike continued tovisit him on a regular basis inboth Belmarsh and Norwich

and was one of only ten guestswhen Biggs married hisBrazilian girlfriend in prison in2002.

As well as writing his books,Mike was asked to championthe “Free Ronnie Biggs”campaign from 2001 to 2009and he did so freely as he wasand remains very angry thatBiggs was treated worse thana murderer or child sexoffender. He says Biggs wasnever violent, describing himas “an ordinary man” with “nota bad bone in his body”. Thegang member who hit thetrain driver over the head was

one of the three who escapedand has never been arrestedbut no fire-arms were used.

Mike believes it was themedia coverage which turnedRonnie Biggs into a cult figure:“He was a little fish whobecame a legend.”

Ronnie Biggs was releasedin August 2009 and is now in anursing home. Mike continuesto visit him and has become aclose friend of the family. Thisyear, of course, is the 50th

anniversary of the Great TrainRobbery.

Mike says: “I feel peace forhim at last.

RONNIE Arthur Biggs wasborn in 1929 on August8th, coincidentally the

same month and date of theGreat Train Robbery.

He was born in Lambeth and for hispart in the crime, received thesentence of 30 years in prison, of whichhe served a total of ten years. This wasfrom 1963 to 1965 and then on hisreturn to Britain, from 2001 to 2009when he was released on

The Great TrainRobbery

compassionate grounds.The Great Train Robbery was on

August 8th, 1963 and involved a gang of15 led by Bruce Reynolds. Their targetwas the Royal Mail train headingbetween Glasgow and London. They gotaway with over 2.6 million pounds (theequivalent of 46 million pounds today).

Although no firearms were used, thetrain driver Jack Mills was beaten overthe head with a metal bar. He recoveredbut the robber who attacked him wasone of the three men never caught bythe police.

Other members of the Train Robberygang also became fugitives, includingBruce Reynolds who was the last one tobe caught. He lived in Mexico, Canadaand France before returning to Englandwhere he was arrested in 1968 inTorquay and sentenced to 25 years. Hewas released a decade later and diedearlier this year.

After his prison escape, Ronnie Biggsoriginally fled to Paris, before moving toAustralia and then Brazil and back toBritain where he returned to prison foranother eight years. By the time he wasreleased, he had served more time injail than any other of the robbers, despitehis relatively minor role in providingdetails for a driver to move the train whenit was first intercepted.

Ronnie Biggs the insidestory (published 2009)Available in Hardback andKindle from Amazon (www.a-mazon.com) & Apex Publi-shing (www.Apexpublis-hing.co.uk).

The Ronnie Biggs QuizBook (publishing November1st) Available as a Kindle onlyfrom Amzazon & ApexPublishing.

101 Interesting facts onRonnie Biggs & The GreatTrain Robbery (publishing 1stDece,ber) Available as aKindle only from Amazon &Apex Publishing.

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AGATHA BACK IN PUERTO

THE resort town once again plays homage tothe famous English writer with plays, guidedtours, films, conferences and concerts. In

addition, a themed cruise from Southampton ar-rives on the day of the opening ceremony.

Festival pays homage tocrime writerPuerto de la Cruz will offer more than a touch of mystery when ithosts the IV International Agatha Christie Festival from November4th to 10th

Puerto’s Centre for TourismInitiatives has held this popularfestival once every two yearsfrom 2007 in recognition ofAgatha Christie’s enchantmentwith the town when she cameon holiday in 1927. Followingthe death of her mother andseparation from her husband,it was exactly the location shecrazed to escape thepressures and attention of theBritish press.

Cruise passengers arrivingon November 4th will be ableto visit landmark sites whichare emblematically British,such as the Anglican church,the Sitio Litre orchid gardensor the British Library. They willalso walk down a streetnamed in her honour and see

a statue of her, together with asmall theatrical piece byactress Antonio Jaster.

The cruise will bring in topAgatha Christie specialist, Dr.John Curran to take part invarious festival activities suchas the film forum on November5th at 7pm in the Castillo SanFelipe, opening exclusively tohost events. There will be ascreening with Spanish sub-titles of the original version of“Death on the Nile” directedin 1978 by John Guillermin,followed at the end byquestions and answersbetween the audience andexpert.

On November 5th and 7th, theYouth House will show thecycle “Cine para jóvenes” at

6pm.The CIT has planned various

activities for November 6th.Particularly atmospheric willbe “A walk with AgathaChristie”, guided tours toplaces she visited andavailable in Spanish, English,German and Finnish. Themeeting point is the AnglicanChurch in Parque Taoro andthe guided tour will berepeated at 10am on theFriday and Saturday, with noprior registration required.

At 7pm on November 6th,John Curran returns to CastilloSan Felipe to present his book“Agatha Christie: The plans ofcrime” which includes ideasand documents neverpublished.

At the same venue, JohnLucas and John Reid will talkabout two different aspects ofthe history of the British inPuerto (6pm, November 7th)and at 7.30pm that evening,

there will be a screening thereof “Ten Little Indians” withSpanish sub-titles.

On November 7th and 9th, theEnglish-speaking TheatreAssociation will stage “TheSpider’s Web” at Hotel El Tope;admission ten euros (doorsopen 7.30pm). At 9pm onNovember 8th, the ReyesBartlet choir will give a concertentitled “Mystery at the Opera”with a tour of European music,including Richard Wagner,Agatha’s favourite composer.

The theatre group, LaPandilla, directed by AntoniaJaster, will present “La señalroja” in the Sala Timanfaya alsoon November 8th (admission12 euros) at 8.30pm and thiswill be repeated on theSaturday at 7pm and 9pm. At11pm on November 9th, thegroup “Baby Black Cuartet”will give a concert in calleIriarte at its corner with calleSan Juan.

To finish this fourth edition,Jardín Botánico will host anopen house on Sunday,November 10th from 9am to6pm.

All tickets can be pur-chased at the CIT office inPuerto between 9am and 3pmMonday to Friday or just beforethe events.

WOOL CREATIONS

THE Pinolere Cultural Association in LaOrotava is dedicated to the preservation ofold crafts and traditions.

Craft workshop atPinolere

Courses and workshops areheld on a regular basis andthere will be another onNovember 11th, 13th, 18th and20th from 4pm to 8pm.

This time, the spotlight fallson sheep’s wool and all the

wonderful things you cancreate from it. You will learnall the processes involved,from washing and preparingthe wool to making items suchas hats and bags.

The course will be taught at

the Pinolere EthnographicMuseum (which is also opento the general public) and alltools and materials will besupplied. You will be able totake home the objects youmake and a certificate.

To register, email [email protected] or yaiza.pino-lere @ gmail.com or phone922 322678.

FILM FESTIVAL

SPANISH comedianand actor, GorkaOtxoa is to be guest

of honour at the VIIIShort Film Festival in LaOrotava.

Organisers are delightedhe will be present at the event,being held on November 14th,15th and 16th, and will awarda prize during the closingceremony.

Gorka Otxoa is well -known in the world of film,theatre and television andcurrently combines his rolein the Antena 3 series Vivowith various stage and bigscreen roles.

He recently received aprestigious award at theInternational Cinema Festivalin Valencia which, amongother things, recognised therole he played in selecting theprojects to participate in.

His input will be greatlyvalued as the Short FilmFestival showcases new andup-and-coming talent andoffers the public a sample ofthe best small format films onthe national scene today.

Special guest ofhonour

Gorka Otxoa




CHICAGO GUESTS

THE acclaimed Chicago Gospel Group will bemaking a special trip to the Canary Islandsbefore Christmas this year.

Singing a gospel Christmas

They are to present a uniqueconcert in Las Palmas, GranCanaria on December 7th aspart of the “VIII Festival GóspelCanarias”.

“Singing Gospel Christmas”will be directed by Percy E.Gray Jr and will feature a fullrange of traditional gospel

numbers and internationalChristmas songs.

Chicago Gospel Group ispart of the Chicago Mass Choirfounded by James C.Chambers with the aim ofuniting all choirs, communityorganisations, musicians,composers and soloists.

Percy E. Gray Jr is a prolificcomposer and has producedmore than 50 albums forseveral gospel choirs. He iswidely regarded as a livinglegend of gospel music.

The concert takes place atthe Auditorio Alfredo

Kraus (seewww.auditorio-

alfredokraus.com andwww.entradas.com).

POP & DANCE

SANTA Cruz believes a “ground-breaking” con-cert on November 8th will continue the bid torevitalise the capital.

Santa Cruz stages freeconcert

“Tenerife 40 Pop & Dance”will bring together about 20artists in the new commercialzone of Vía Litoral.

Mayor, José ManuelBermúdez said the freeconcert would confirm thecity’s position as a “musicalmeeting point” and show thepotential of this new area.

“I am sure it will be asuccess because there willbe great artists and it will

allow us to follow the trendof consumer reactivationwhich started two years agowith weekend activities,” hesaid.

The concert is expected toattract a huge crowd and willbe presented by Tony Aguilar.Artists will include Edurne,

Angy, Nuria Swan, Jadel, Xrizand Ray Castellano.

Details were revealed bythe Mayor who was joined byTenerife Cabildo president,Carlos Alonso and represen-tatives of the main sponsors,Cadena SER and Telefónicain the Canaries.

Sr. Alonso praised SantaCruz council for its “positivedynamics” to promoteleisure activities.

Keep up-to-date with concert news onwww.santacruzdetenerife.es

SPECIAL guests willput the finishingtouch to “Jazz Oto-

ño” or “Autumn Jazz” inthe Canary Islands.

The fourth edition of thispopular festival is being heldin a number of venues in GranCanaria and starts onNovember 8th with a concertby Kurt Rosenwinkel, aleading light in thedevelopment of guitar jazztoday. He has never played inthe Canaries before and saysit is a dream come true to doso. An added bonus is that hewill be accompanied bypianist Aaron Parks withwhom he has collaboratedwith since 2006.

On November 16th,Madeleine Peyroux presents“The Blue Room” whilst OmarSosa and Paolo Fresu are inconcert on November 19th,combining acoustic and

The sounds of “Autumn Jazz”

electronic sounds.The band “Jazz Coming” is

in concert on November 28th

whilst on December 5th, fourguitar maestros in the formof Philip Catherine, ChristianEscoudé, Ulf Wakenius andMark Whitfield take to thestage.

The festival closes onDecember 13th when DavidQuevedo presents his new

trio with Carlos Meneses andJosé Víctor González.Bentejuí de Vera, GermánLópez and Yul Ballesteros areamong the artists putting thefinishing touches.

“Jazz Otoño” is organisedby Auditorio Alfredo Kraus,the University de Las Palmasde Gran Canaria and thetheatres Pérez Galdós, Cuyásand Guiniguada.

RECORD EVENT

THE eighth edition of the “Ruta de Tapas” be-gan on October 23rd and continues until No-vember 17th. Forty-five establishments are tak-

ing part, a record for the event so far.

Follow the tapasroute in La Orotava

FREE guided tours of the new “Palmetum” inSanta Cruz have proved such a success thatthey are to be extended.

Popular “Palmetum”extends free tours

Since opening its doors atthe end of September, thebotanical garden hasattracted more than 1,000visitors. These have includedschools, college students, adelegation of travel agents,environmental groups and afarming centre.

Santa Cruz council saysthese guided tours will nowcontinue until November 17th,free of charge as before,because of the high demand.

Expert in botany, CarlosMorici is in charge ofexplaining the details of thisgreen space and guidesvisitors through the 12hectares that comprise thePalmetum. After threedecades of intensive planningand work, this area has beentotally transformed and given

a new image, having beenconverted into a unique andsustainable development.

Councillor for theenvironment, Yuri Mas saidthey had decided to extend thetours as local people hadshown immense interest andthere had been long waitinglists. By November 17th, visitornumbers are expected to topthe 2,500 level.

The tours until November17th are on a Friday andSaturday, 5.30pm to 7.30pmand on Sundays at 10.30am.They are designed toaccommodate groups of 40people but those interestedmust book in advance.Telephone the Santa CruzSustainable Foundation on 922534 477 or email [email protected].

The city council has alreadyannounced that following thecompletion of these freeguided tours, the Palmetumwill open to the public at theend of November.

The botanical gardenfeatures spectacular vege-tation, the result of collabo-rations made with numerousinstitutions around the worldover the last three decades.There are various structures,including an entrancebuilding, with a lift and rampup to the octagon, a huge sunshade, ethnographic museum,complex of waterfalls and ahalf-buried building, yet to becompleted, rivers and lakes.

The Palmetum is locatedon the only mountain in SantaCruz , so it is like a gardenrising out of the city. It hasmagnificent views of theocean, capital and Anagamountains.

If you enjoy good food, wine and culture, then LaOrotava is delighted to issue you with a special in-vitation

This year, there is a newinnovation as an on-line apphas been created throughcomputers or mobiles. Itshows you all theparticipating bars andrestaurants, a map andtelephone numbers and youcan also vote for yourfavourite. Those interested inthis method on their phonescan do so through the QR

code on posters andadvertisements or viawww.rutatapa.info oncomputers. A mini brochurehas also been produced.

Organisers are delightedwith the record response of45 participants as there areusually around 30. Last year,25,000 tapas dishes wereconsumed and this is likelyto be much higher on this

occasion. Each dish coststwo euros.

This gastronomic initiativewas presented by first deputyMayor, Francisco Linares andeconomic developmentcouncillor, Felipe DavidBenítez who are encouragingpeople to come along. Theyhave also praised the placestaking part and contributing toefforts to combat the difficulteconomic times.

To encourage the use oftaxis, there will be special ratesfor groups of six and threeroutes have been set up tocover the area of La Perdoma,El Rincón and Cuevas and LaOrotava-Los Inos.

All the restaurants takingpart have also been asked touse at least one productpurchased from the localagricultural market.

There will be prizes for thebest three covers and one forthe people’s favourite.Anyone who visits at least tenestablishments and fills in thelittle card will also go in to adraw for various prizes,including meals, wine, aweekend at a hotel in thesouth and baskets of localproduce.

25TH APRIL14:15


1 ST NOVEMBER23:50

HALLOWEEN:RESURRECTION(FILM)

Horror sequel. A group of high-school kids volunteer for aHalloween night online reality TV show, in which they have tospend the night in the old house of serial killer Michael Myers.But Michael didn’t really die a few years ago. In fact, he neverwent away.Director: Rick RosenthalStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Brad Loree, Busta Rhymes, BiancaKajlich, Sean Patrick Thomas, Daisy McCrackin

(STEREO, WIDESCREEN, SUBTITLES, DOLBY DIG-ITAL 5.1, AUDIO DESCRIBED, 2002, 15, 2 STAR)

3RD NOVEMBER14:20

Track World Cup.Live coverage of the final day’s action from the opening round of the 2013-14World Cup series from the Manchester Velodrome, plus a look back at theevent’s highlights so far. With the women’s omnium on Sunday’s schedule,Britain’s Laura Trott could strut her stuff in one of two events she won Olympicgold in last summer.

(EDITOR’S CHOICE, STEREO, WIDESCREEN, LIVE, SUBTITLES, 3 STAR)

CYCLING(SPORT)

Ben Shephard hosts the quiz show in which four players take on anextraordinary machine in the hope of winning its 10,000 poundjackpot.

4TH NOVEMBER16:00

TIPPINGPOINT(GAME SHOW)

Disaster adventure mini-series. A huge meteor strikes the Moon, knocking it out of orbit and into acataclysmic collision course with the Earth.Director: Mike RohlStarring: David James Elliott, Natasha Henstridge, Benjamin Sadler, Florentine Lahme, James Cromwell,Steven Culp

6TH NOVEMBER15:15

IMPACT(FILM)

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THURSDAY 31ST OCTOBER 2013

06:00 Breakfast09:15 The Sheriffs are

Coming10:00 Homes Under the

Hammer11:00 Saints and

Scroungers11:45 Britain’s Empty

Homes12:15 Bargain Hunt13:00 BBC News at One13:30 BBC London News13:45 Doctors14:15 Keeping Up

Appearances15:15 Perfection16:00 Escape to the

Country16:30 Put Your Money

Where Your Mouth Is17:15 Pointless18:00 BBC News at Six18:30 BBC London News19:00 The One Show20:00 Watchdog21:00 Autumn’s

SupermarketSecrets

22:00 BBC News at Ten22:25 BBC London News22:35 A Question of

Sport23:05 The League Cup

Show00:05 Weatherview00:10 BBC News

07:45 Britain’s EmptyHomes

08:15 The A to Z of TVCooking

09:00 Super Giant Animals10:00 Plan it, Build it10:30 See Hear11:00 BBC News11:30 The Daily Politics13:00 Cash in the Attic13:45 Great British Menu14:45 Floyd on Britain and

Ireland15:15 Are You Being

Served?15:45 ‘Allo, ‘Allo!16:20 Cagney and Lacey17:05 Flog It!17:55 Party Political

Broadcast by theLabour Party

18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come

Dancing: It TakesTwo

19:00 The Great BritishBake OffMasterclass

20:00 Autumnwatch21:00 Ambassadors22:00 The Culture Show22:30 Newsnight23:20 Great Continental

Railway Journeys00:20 See Hear00:50 This is BBC Two

06:00 0Daybreak08:30 Lorraine09:25 The Jeremy Kyle

Show10:30 This Morning11:25 ITV News11:30 This Morning12:30 Loose Women13:30 ITV News and

Weather14:00 Dickinson’s Real

Deal15:00 The Alan Titchmarsh

Show16:00 Tipping Point17:00 The Chase18:00 ITV News

London18:25 Party Political

Broadcast by theLabour Party

18:30 ITV News andWeather

19:00 Emmerdale19:30 Coronation Street20:00 Agatha Christie’s

Poirot22:00 ITV News at Ten

and Weather22:35 Exposure23:35 James Nesbitt’s

Ireland00:05 Jackpot24703:00 Film Murder, She

Wrote: The LastFree Man

07:05 According to Jim07:30 Will and Grace07:55 Frasier09:00 Everybody Loves

Raymond10:00 The Big Bang Theory11:00 Undercover Boss

USA12:00 Channel 4 News

Summary12:05 Gordon Ramsay’s

Home Cooking12:35 Jamie’s 15 Minute

Meals13:10 Film The Great

Sioux Massacre15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:55 4thought.tv20:00 River Cottage to the

Core21:00 Grand Designs22:00 Barclaycard Mercury

Prize Live WinnerAnnouncement

22:05 Gogglebox22:50 The Town That

Caught Tourette’s23:55 Up All Night00:50 Random Acts00:55 Film Celluloid Man

07:35 Thomas and Friends07:45 Noddy in Toyland08:00 Fifi and the

Flowertots08:15 Peppa Pig08:35 Toby’s Travelling

Circus08:45 Bananas in Pyjamas09:00 Tickety Toc09:15 The Wright Stuff11:10 The Hotel Inspector12:10 5 News

Lunchtime12:15 Cowboy Builders13:15 Home and Away13:45 Neighbours14:15 NCIS15:10 Film The Ghost of

Greville Lodge17:00 5 News at 517:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Robson’s Extreme

Fishing Challenge20:00 Ben Fogle’s Animal

Clinic21:00 I Lost Weight But

Lost My Husband22:00 Wentworth23:00 CSI: Crime Scene

Investigation23:55 Inside Hollywood00:00 Pokerstars: The Big

Game00:55 Super Casino

06:00 Premier LeagueReview

07:00 Game Changers07:15 Sporting Greats07:45 Live International

One-Day Cricket16:30 Premier League

Review17:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial18:00 Football Gold18:30 Football´s Greatest19:00 Football Gold19:30 Live Capital One

Cup Football22:15 What´s the Story?23:15 Sporting Heroes

09:30 Capital One CupFootball

10:30 Spanish Football13:35 Capital One CUp

Football14:30 Prem. Leag. Review15:30 CApital One Cup

Football16:30 Formula 3 Series

Motor Racing17:30 World Golf

Championship18:00 Inside the PGA

Tour18:30 Europ. Tour Weekly19:00 Great Run Series




Scroungers11:45 Britain’s Empty

Homes12:15 Bargain Hunt13:00 BBC News at One13:30 Regional News

and Weather13:45 Doctors14:15 Keeping Up

Appearances15:15 Perfection16:00 Escape to the

Country16:30 Put Your Money

Where Your Mouth Is17:15 Pointless18:00 BBC News at Six18:30 Regional News

and Weather19:00 The One Show19:30 EastEnders20:00 Waterloo Road21:00 Truckers22:00 BBC News at Ten22:25 Regional News

and Weather22:35 Question Time23:35 This Week00:20 Holiday Weatherview00:25 BBC News


09:05 The Ottomans:Europe’s MuslimEmperors

10:05 Plan it, Build it10:35 HARDtalk11:00 BBC News11:30 BBC World News12:00 The Daily Politics13:00 Cash in the Attic13:45 Great British

Menu14:45 Floyd on Britain and


Served?15:45 ‘Allo, ‘Allo!16:20 Cagney and Lacey17:10 Flog It!18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come



20:00 Autumnwatch21:00 World’s Busiest

Maternity Ward22:00 Mock the Week22:30 Newsnight23:20 Trust Me, I’m a

Doctor00:20 Panorama00:50 This is BBC Two

06:00 Daybreak08:30 Lorraine09:25 The Jeremy Kyle

Show10:30 This

Morning11:25 ITV News11:30 This

Morning12:30 Loose Women13:30 ITV News and




London18:30 ITV News and

Weather19:00 Emmerdale19:30 Tonight20:00 Emmerdale20:30 Britain’s Secret

Treasures21:00 Breathless22:00 ITV News at Ten

and Weather22:35 The Jonathan Ross

Show23:40 Wild Britain with Ray

Mears00:05 Jackpot24703:00 Tonight

07:10 According to Jim07:35 Will and Grace08:00 Frasier09:05 Everybody Loves

Raymond10:05 The Big Bang Theory11:00 Undercover Boss

USA12:00 Channel 4 News



Meals13:10 Hugh’s 3 Good

Things13:20 Film The Bravados15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:55 4thought.tv20:00 George Clarke’s

Amazing Spaces21:00 Bedlam22:00 Up All Night23:05 Barclaycard Mercury

Prize Awards Show00:30 Random Acts00:35 999: What’s Your

Emergency?01:30 Embarrassing

Bodies

07:20 The Mr. Men Show07:35 Thomas and Friends07:45 Noddy in Toyland08:00 Fifi and the

Flowertots08:15 Peppa Pig08:30 Milkshake Monkey08:35 Toby’s Travelling


Lunchtime12:15 Robson’s Extreme

Fishing Challenge13:15 Home and Away13:45 Neighbours14:15 The Mentalist15:15 Film The Canterville

Ghost17:00 5 News at 517:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Police

Interceptors20:00 Benidorm ER21:00 Countdown to

Murder22:00 Person of Interest23:00 Law and Order:

Criminal Intent23:55 Inside Hollywood00:00 Super Casino

10:00 What´s the Story?11:00 Football´s Greatest11:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial12:00 Capital One Cup13:00 What´s the Story?13:55 Spanish Football16:00 Capital One Cup

Football17:00 FIFA Futbol Mundial17:30 Football Gold18:00 Prem. League World18:30 Capital One Cup

Football19:30 Live Story Shield

Football21:30 Cap. One Cup Foot.

10:00 International One-Day Cricket

11:00 Racing News11:30 Total Rugby12:00 Sporting Heroes13:00 International One-

Day Cricket14:00 Formula 3 Series

Motor Racing15:00 International One-

Day Cricket16:00 Sporting Heroes17:00 Racemax18:00 RIngside18:55 Live Spanish

Football

TENERIFE NEWS 487 I TV GUIDE 27FRIDAY 1ST NOVEMBER 2013

SATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER 2013



Hammer11:00 Saints and Scroungers11:45 Britain’s Empty

Homes12:15 Bargain Hunt13:00 BBC News at One13:30 BBC London News13:45 Doctors14:15 Keeping Up

Appearances15:15 Perfection16:00 Escape to the Country16:30 Put Your Money

Where Your Mouth Is17:15 Pointless18:00 BBC News at Six18:30 BBC London News19:00 The One Show19:30 A Question of Sport20:00 EastEnders20:30 Room 10121:00 Have I Got News for

You21:30 Citizen Khan22:00 BBC News at Ten22:25 BBC London News22:35 The Graham Norton

Show23:20 Bluestone 4223:50 Film Halloween:

Resurrection01:15 Weatherview


09:00 Flog it! TradeSecrets

10:00 Question Time11:00 BBC News11:30 BBC World

News12:00 The Daily Politics13:00 Cash in the Attic13:45 Great British Menu14:45 Floyd on Britain and


Served?15:45 ‘Allo, ‘Allo!16:10 Cagney and Lacey17:00 Flog It!18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come



20:00 Gardeners’ World20:30 Autumnwatch21:30 Autumnwatch

Unsprung22:00 QI22:30 Newsnight23:05 Later... with Jools

Holland00:10 Film The Diving Bell

and the Butterfly01:55 Question Time


Show10:30 This







Weather19:00 Emmerdale19:30 Coronation

Street20:00 Off the Beaten

Track20:30 Coronation Street21:00 Piers Morgan’s Life

Stories22:00 ITV News at Ten

and Weather22:35 Closer to the Edge00:40 Jackpot24703:00 Film

Captivity

07:25 Will and Grace07:55 Frasier09:00 Everybody Loves

Raymond10:00 The Big Bang Theory11:00 Undercover Boss USA12:00 Channel 4 News


Home Cooking12:30 Superscrimpers:

Waste Not, WantNot

12:35 Film The Quiet Man15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:30 Unreported World19:55 4thought.tv20:00 Embarrassing Bodies21:00 8 Out of 10 Cats21:30 Man Down22:00 Alan Carr: Chatty

Man23:05 Stand Up for the

Week23:55 Was it Something I

Said?00:40 Gogglebox01:25 London Irish01:50 Random Acts01:55 The Big C

07:10 Ben and Holly’sLittle Kingdom

07:20 The Mr Men Show07:35 Thomas and Friends07:45 Noddy in Toyland08:00 Fifi and the



Lunchtime12:15 Construction Squad:

OperationHomefront

13:15 Home and Away13:45 Neighbours14:20 The Mentalist15:15 Film Committed17:00 5 News at 517:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Chris Tarrant Goes

Fishing20:00 Caught on Camera21:00 Britain’s Funniest

Comedy Characters23:55 Inside Hollywood00:00 Super Casino03:05 Pickpockets and

Proud

10:00 VIctory ShieldFootball

12:00 Capital One CupFootball

13:00 Football´s Greatest13:30 Football Gold13:55 Spanish FOotball16:00 Capital One Cup

Football17:00 Football Gold17:30 Premier League

World18:00 Champions League

Weekly18:30 The Fantasy Footb.19:30 FL72 Live

09:00 Rugby Club Special11:30 Ringside12:30 NFL13:30 RIngside14:30 Sporting

Greats15:00 NFL16:00 RIngside17:00 NFL18:00 NFL-A FOotball Life19:00 Tight Lines19:55 Live Spanish

Football22:00 The F1 Show23:00 WWE: Late Night-

Smackdown

06:00 Breakfast10:00 Saturday Kitchen

Live11:30 Paul Hollywood’s

Bread12:00 Football Focus12:45 Saturday

Sportsday13:00 BBC

News13:10 Regional News

and Weather13:15 Bargain Hunt14:00 Rugby League World

Cup16:30 Final Score17:10 F1: Grand Prix

Qualifying18:15 BBC News18:25 Regional News

and Weather18:30 Strictly Come

Dancing20:15 Atlantis21:05 The National Lottery

Live21:15 Casualty22:05 BBC

News22:25 Match of the

Day23:55 The Football League

Show01:10 Weatherview01:15 BBC

News

06:00 This is BBC Two

07:10 Film SecondChorus

08:35 Film StageStruck

10:10 Reel History ofBritain

10:40 The Life ofBirds

11:30 Fred Dibnah’sIndustrial Age


12:45 TalkingPictures

13:25 Film Becket15:50 Film Bitter

Victory17:30 The House That

£100k Built18:30 Flog It!19:30 Natural

World20:30 Dad’s Army21:00 50 Years on

Stage23:15 The Sarah Millican

Slightly LongerTelevisionProgramme

23:55 Film A Cock and BullStory

01:25 FilmOctane


06:35 Dino Dan07:00 Canimals07:25 Sooty07:35 Horrid Henry07:50 Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles08:15 Bottom Knocker

Street08:30 The Munch Box09:25 Saturday Cookbook10:20 Murder, She Wrote11:15 ITV News and

Weather11:25 Surprise Surprise12:25 All Star Family

Fortunes13:10 Doc Martin14:15 Catchphrase15:00 Film Star Wars:

Episode III -17:35 ITV News


Weather18:00 You’ve Been

Framed!18:30 Fool Britannia19:00 The Chase:

Celebrity Special20:00 The X Factor21:50 The Jonathan Ross

Show22:55 ITV News and

Weather23:10 Take Me Out00:10 Jackpot247

06:10 TheHoobs

07:05 Volleyball08:00 The Morning

Line09:00 The American

Football Show10:00 Frasier10:30 Everybody Loves

Raymond11:00 The Big Bang

Theory11:55 The

Simpsons12:25 Heston’s Titanic

Feast13:30 Channel 4

Racing16:00 Come Dine with

Me18:30 Channel 4

News19:00 Double Your House

for Half theMoney

20:00 GrandDesigns

21:00 Film TheEagle

23:15 Film From Dusk TillDawn

01:20 Film Once Upon aTime inAnatolia

08:10 The Adventures ofBottle Top Bill andHis Best FriendCorky

08:25 Angelina Ballerina08:40 Hana’s Helpline08:55 Ben and Holly’s

Little Kingdom09:10 Toby’s Travelling

Circus09:25 Roary the Racing

Car09:40 Jelly Jamm09:55 The Mr. Men Show10:10 Power Rangers:

Megaforce10:45 Slugterra11:10 Inside Hollywood11:15 Ben Fogle’s Animal

Clinic12:15 Film Columbo:

Blueprint for Murder13:50 Film Objective,

Burma!16:35 Film The Colditz

Story18:30 Lost Heroes of

World War I19:00 The Great Escape20:00 War Hero in My

Family20:55 5 News Weekend21:00 Film Collateral

Damage23:15 Film Alien Hunter01:00 Super Casino

09:00 GameChangers

10:00 Soccer AM12:00 FL72 Live14:30 Saturday Team

Talk15:00 Soccer

Saturday17:00 Saturday Night

Football20:00 SNF-Game of the

Day22:00 SNF-Match Choice23:30 FL72 Highlights00:00 Saturday

Reloaded

07:15 Sporting Greats07:45 Live International

One-Day Cricket12:30 World Golf

Championship13:30 Live INternational

Rugny Union17:00 Sporting Heroes18:00 NFL-A Football

Life19:00 International

Rugby Union20:00 Fight Night-Live23:30 Sporting00:00 International

Rugby Union

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MONDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 2013

06:00 Breakfast07:25 Match of the

Day09:00 The Andrew Marr

Show10:00 Sunday Morning

Live11:00 Sunday Politics12:15 MOTD2 Extra13:00 BBC News13:15 The Story of the

Swastika13:45 Bargain Hunt14:40 Escape to the

Country15:40 Points of View15:55 Songs of Praise16:30 F1: Grand Prix18:00 BBC News18:10 Regional News

and Weather18:20 Countryfile19:20 Strictly Come

Dancing20:00 The Paradise21:00 Richard Hammond

Builds a Planet22:00 BBC News22:15 Regional News

and Weather22:25 Match of the

Day 223:30 Rugby League00:30 The Sky at Night00:50 Weatherview00:55 BBC News

06:00 This is BBCTwo

07:10 Film The BrideWalks Out

08:30 Alan Titchmarsh’sGarden Secrets

09:30 Gardeners’World

10:00 Saturday KitchenBest Bites

11:30 EastEndersOmnibus

13:20 RugbyUnion

14:20 Cycling17:30 Inspire: The Olympic

Journey18:00 Flog It!18:30 The Ginge, the

Geordie and theGeek

19:00 How to Build a Jumbo Jet Engine

20:00 Countdown to theRains

21:00 Great ContinentalRailway Journeys

22:00 The WrongMans

22:30 QI XL23:15 Never Mind the

Buzzcocks23:45 Film The

Invisible01:20 Countryfile02:15 Holby City

06:35 Dino Dan07:00 Canimals07:25 Sooty07:35 Horrid Henry07:50 Big Time Rush08:15 Bottom Knocker

Street08:30 Fort Boyard09:25 ITV News09:30 Storage

Hoarders10:30 Sunday Side Up11:30 Sunday Scoop12:30 ITV News and

Weather12:35 Inside the National

Trust13:35 Fool Britannia14:05 The X Factor15:55 Downton Abbey17:00 You’ve Been

Framed!17:30 Prize Island18:35 ITV News


Weather19:00 Surprise Surprise20:00 The X Factor Results

Show21:00 Downton Abbey22:05 ITV News and

Weather22:20 OCD Ward23:20 Rugby Highlights00:20 The Store

08:00 Everybody LovesRaymond

09:00 Frasier09:30 Sunday Brunch12:30 The Big Bang Theory13:50 The Simpsons15:20 Film Star Trek V: The

Final Frontier17:25 Channel 4 News17:50 Film Grease

07:05 Roobarb andCustard Too

07:10 Bananas in Pyjamas07:25 Make Way for

Noddy07:40 City of Friends07:50 Bert and Ernie’s

Great Adventures07:55 Little Princess08:10 The Adventures of

Bottle Top Bill andHis Best FriendCorky

08:25 Angelina Ballerina08:45 Hana’s Helpline09:00 Ben and Holly’s

Little Kingdom09:10 Milkshake Monkey09:15 Toby’s Travelling


Car09:45 Jelly Jamm10:00 Power Rangers:

Super Samurai10:35 Slugterra11:00 Cowboy Builders12:00 Police Interceptors13:00 Film Ghostbusters15:00 Film Baby Boom17:10 Film The Fox and

the Hound18:50 5 News Weekend18:55 Film U-57121:00 Film 201200:10 Film Creep

07:30 GameChangers

08:30 FL72 Highlights09:00 The Sunday

Supplement10:30 Goals on

Sunday12:30 LKive Super

Sunday18:30 Live Spanish

Football22:00 Football SPecial23:30 Champions League

Weekly00:00 Spanish

Football

09:00 International RugbyUnion

10:00 International FightNight

13:30 Intrnational RugbyUnion

14:30 International One-Day Cricket


16:30 NFL-A FOotballLife

17:30 Live NFL00:30 NFL-A Football

Life

20:00 Bigfoot Files21:00 Homeland22:00 Was it Something I

Said?22:25 Toast of London22:50 No Fire Zone23:45 Alan Carr: Chatty

Man

John Travolta and Olivia New-ton-John star as Danny Zuko andSandy Olsen, who had a sum-mer romance and then meetagain at high school. He tries toprotect his macho persona fromher squeaky clean image, but thetables are turned when Sandy, ina leather costume so tight New-ton-John had to be sewn into it,wins his heart. Randal Kleiser’sfilm, based on the original musi-cal, is jammed with show-stop-ping songs and a stand-out sup-porting cast, with StockardChanning as tough girl Rizzo al-most eclipsing Sandy.

06:00 Breakfast09:15 Remembrance Week10:00 Homes Under the


Scroungers11:45 Escape to the Country12:15 Bargain Hunt13:00 BBC News at One13:30 Regional News

and Weather13:45 Doctors14:15 The Indian Doctor15:00 Pressure Pad15:45 Paul Hollywood’s Pies

and Puds16:30 Antiques Road Trip17:15 Pointless18:00 BBC News at Six18:30 Regional News

and Weather19:00 The One Show19:30 Caught Red Handed20:00 EastEnders20:30 Panorama21:00 Ripper Street22:00 BBC News at Ten22:25 Regional News

and Weather22:35 Have I Got a Bit More

News for You23:20 Citizen Khan23:50 The Graham Norton


06:05 Homes Under theHammer

07:05 Saints andScroungers

07:50 Britain’s EmptyHomes

08:20 Real Rescues09:05 Watchdog10:05 James Martin’s

Food Map of Britain10:35 Click11:00 BBC News11:30 BBC World News12:00 The Daily Politics13:00 Rugby League14:00 Tennis17:00 Flog It!18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come


19:00 Celebrity AntiquesRoad Trip

20:00 University Challenge20:30 MasterChef: The

Professionals21:00 The Choir22:00 Never Mind the

Buzzcocks22:30 Newsnight23:20 Africa 2013:

Countdown to theRains

00:20 The Culture Show00:50 The Story of the

Jews







Weather19:00 Emmerdale19:30 Coronation Street20:00 Tales From

Northumberlandwith Robson Green

20:30 Coronation Street21:00 A Mother’s Son22:00 ITV News at Ten

and Weather22:35 The Agenda23:05 Piers Morgan’s Life

Stories00:05 Jackpot24703:00 UEFA Champions

League Weekly03:25 ITV Nightscreen

06:10 The Hoobs07:00 According to Jim07:25 Will and Grace07:50 Everybody Loves

Raymond08:55 Frasier10:00 Undercover Boss

USA11:00 Beat My Build12:00 Channel 4 News


Home Cooking12:35 River Cottage Bites12:55 Film Hombre15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:55 4thought.tv20:00 Dispatches20:30 Health Freaks21:00 999: What’s Your

Emergency?22:00 Fresh Meat22:50 Cardinal Burns23:25 America’s Animal

Hoarder: Horror atthe Zoo

00:40 Random Acts00:45 Lata in Her Own

Voice01:40 Film Pakeezah



Circus08:50 Bananas in

Pyjamas09:00 Tickety Toc09:15 The Wright Stuff11:10 The Hotel Inspector12:10 5 News

Lunchtime12:15 War Hero in My

Family13:15 Home and Away13:45 Neighbours14:20 The Mentalist15:15 Film Deadliest Sea17:00 5 News at 517:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Construction Squad:

OperationHomefront

20:00 The Gadget Show21:00 The Woman with 40

Cats... And OtherPet Hoarders

22:00 Under the Dome23:00 Film Judge Dredd00:45 Campus Pd01:05 Super Casino

10:30 FL 72 Highlights11:00 Spanish Football12:00 Football Special13:30 FL72 Highlights14:00 Spanish Football15:00 Football Gold15:30 Champions League

Weekly16:00 The Fantasy

Football Club16:30 Game Changers17:30 Soccer Am: The

Best Bits18:30 FL72 Review19:30 Live Scottish

Premiership

08:00 NFL10:00 World Golf

Championship11:00 Inter. Rugby Union12:00 NFL14:00 World Golf

Championship15:00 Inter. Rugby Union16:00 Football Special17:30 Great Run Series18:00 Show Jumping19:00 NFL21:00 Thrillseekers21:30 Great Run

Series22:00 NFL

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WEDNESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2013

06:00 Breakfast09:15 Remembrance

Week10:00 Homes Under the


Scroungers11:45 Escape to the

Country12:15 Bargain Hunt13:00 BBC News at One13:30 Regional News

and Weather13:45 Doctors14:15 The Indian Doctor15:00 Pressure Pad15:45 Paul Hollywood’s

Pies and Puds16:30 Antiques Road Trip17:15 Pointless18:00 BBC News at Six18:30 Regional News

and Weather19:00 The One Show19:30 EastEnders20:00 Holby City21:00 The Escape

Artist22:00 BBC News at Ten22:25 Regional News

and Weather22:35 Imagine...23:50 Film The Men Who

Stare at Goats01:15 Weatherview01:20 BBC News

06:00 This is BBC Two06:35 Homes Under the


Scroungers08:20 Real Rescues09:05 Antiques

Roadshow10:05 James Martin’s

Food Map of Britain10:35 HARDtalk11:00 BBC News11:30 BBC World

News12:00 The Daily Politics13:00 World Championship

Squash14:00 Tennis17:00 Flog It!18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come



20:00 MasterChef: TheProfessionals

21:00 Iceland Foods: Lifein the FreezerCabinet

22:00 Later Live... withJools Holland

22:30 Newsnight23:20 The Choir00:20 Terror in the Desert01:20 This is BBC Two


Show10:30 This

Morning11:25 ITV

News11:30 This

Morning12:30 Loose

Women13:30 ITV News and





Weather19:00 Emmerdale19:30 UEFA Champions

League22:00 ITV News at Ten

and Weather22:35 UEFA Champions

League23:35 The Jeremy Kyle

Show USA00:20 Jackpot24703:00 Loose

Women






Meals13:10 River Cottage Bites13:20 Film Ten Tall Men15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:55 4thought.tv20:00 Obsessive

CompulsiveCleaners

21:00 EmbarrassingBodies

22:00 Masters of Sex23:10 Random Acts23:15 8 Out of 10 Cats00:00 Pokerstars.Com and

Monte-Carlo CasinoEPT Grand Final



Circus08:50 Bananas in

Pyjamas09:00 Tickety Toc09:15 The Wright Stuff11:10 The Hotel Inspector12:10 5 News

Lunchtime12:15 Ben Fogle’s AnimalClinic13:15 Home and Away13:45 Neighbours14:20 NCIS15:20 Film Secrets of the

Summer House17:00 5 News at 517:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Jungle Babies19:30 The Dog Rescuers20:00 Cowboy Builders21:00 The Mentalist22:00 Castle23:00 Body of Proof00:00 Countdown to

Murder00:55 Super Casino

09:00 Fl72 Review10:00 The Footballers´

Football Show11:00 Soccer Am: The Best

Bits12:00 Fl72 Review13:00 UEFA Champions

League Highlights15:00 The Footballer´s

Football Show16:00 Scotish Premiership

Football16:30 Football Gold17:00 Premier League

Review18:00 Revista de La Liga

09:00 Trilby Tour Golf10:00 World Golf

Championship11:00 Wonderful World of

Golf12:30 PGA Tour Classic13:30 World Golf

Championship14:30 Trilby Tour Golf15:30 PGA Tour

Classic16:30 UEFA Champions

League Highlights18:30 Sportswomen19:00 Live UEFA

Champions League




Country12:15 Bargain Hunt13:00 BBC News at One13:30 Regional News



and Weather19:00 The One Show20:00 Watchdog21:00 Britain on the

Fiddle22:00 BBC News at Ten22:25 Regional News

and Weather22:35 A Question of

Sport23:05 Film 201323:35 Film Keeping Up with

the Steins01:00 Weatherview01:05 BBC News




08:15 RealRescues

09:00 The Wonder ofDogs

10:00 Plan it, Build it10:30 See Hear11:00 BBC News11:30 The Daily

Politics13:00 Animal

Park14:00 Tennis17:00 Flog It!18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come




21:00 Ambassadors22:00 The Culture

Show22:30 Newsnight23:20 Iceland Foods: Life in

the Freezer Cabinet00:20 See Hear00:50 This is BBC

Two


Show10:30 This








Street20:00 Agatha Christie’s

Poirot22:00 ITV News at Ten

and Weather22:35 Newsflash: Stories

That Stopped theWorld

23:35 James Nesbitt’sIreland

00:05 Jackpot24703:00 Columbo

06:00 The Treacle People06:10 The Hoobs07:00 According to Jim07:25 Will and Grace07:55 Everybody Loves





Meals13:10 River Cottage Bites13:20 Film Carry onDoctor15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with

Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:55 4thought.tv20:00 River Cottage to the

Core21:00 Grand Designs22:00 Gogglebox22:45 The Cruel Cut23:45 Random Acts23:50 Up All Night00:50 Drifters

07:10 Ben and Holly’sLittle Kingdom

07:20 The Mr Men Show07:35 Thomas and Friends07:45 Noddy in Toyland08:00 Fifi and the

Flowertots08:10 Peppa Pig08:30 Bert and Ernie’s

Great Adventures08:35 Toby’s Travelling


Lunchtime12:15 Cowboy Builders13:15 Home and Away13:45 Neighbours14:20 NCIS15:15 Film Impact17:00 5 News at 517:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Robson’s Extreme

Fishing Challenge20:00 Ben Fogle’s Animal

Clinic21:00 Too Fat to Fly22:00 Film Step Brothers00:05 Pokerstars: The Big

Game01:00 Super Casino

06:00 Live Test Cricket11:30 Revista de La

Liga12:30 UEFA Champions

League Goals13:30 SPFL Round-Up14:00 UEFA Champions

League Goals17:00 Footbal Gold17:30 FIFA Futbol

Mundial18:00 Live UEFA

Champions League22:00 UEFA Champions

League Goals23:00 Sporting Heroes

08:00 Premier LeagueReview

09:00 Cricket10:00 Football12:00 Cricket13:00 Test Cricket14:00 Cricket15:00 Test Cricket16:00 Cricket17:00 Total Rugby17:30 Test Cricket18:30 Cricket19:30 Live UEFA

Champions League22:00 What´s the Story?23:00 Live Cricket

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Country12:15 Bargain Hunt13:00 BBC News at One13:30 BBC London

News13:45 Doctors14:15 The Indian

Doctor15:00 Pressure Pad15:45 Paul Hollywood’s Pies

and Puds16:30 Antiques Road Trip17:15 Pointless18:00 BBC News at Six18:30 BBC London

News19:00 The One Show19:30 EastEnders20:00 Waterloo

Road21:00 Truckers22:00 BBC News at Ten22:25 BBC London

News22:35 Question Time23:35 This Week00:20 Holiday

Weatherview00:25 BBC News

06:00 This is BBC Two06:35 Homes Under the


Scroungers08:20 Real Rescues09:05 The Ottomans:

Europe’s MuslimEmperors

10:05 Plan it, Build it10:35 HARDtalk11:00 BBC News11:30 BBC World

News12:00 The Daily

Politics13:00 Animal Park14:00 Tennis17:00 Flog It!18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come




21:00 Don’t Panic - TheTruth AboutPopulation

22:00 Mock the Week22:30 Newsnight23:20 World’s Busiest

Maternity Ward00:20 Panorama00:50 This is BBC Two







Weather19:00 Emmerdale19:30 Tonight20:00 Emmerdale20:30 Britain’s Secret

Treasures21:00 Breathless22:00 ITV News at Ten

and Weather22:35 The Jonathan Ross

Show23:40 Wild Britain with

Ray Mears00:05 Jackpot24703:00 Tonight03:25 ITV

Nightscreen






Meals13:15 Film That Touch of

Mink15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:55 4thought.tv20:00 George Clarke’s

Amazing Spaces21:00 Bedlam22:00 Bouncers23:00 999: What’s Your

Emergency?00:10 One Born Every

Minute01:05 Random Acts01:10 Embarrassing

Bodies

06:55 Little Princess07:10 Ben and Holly’s

Little Kingdom07:20 The Mr. Men Show07:35 Thomas and Friends07:45 Noddy in Toyland08:00 Fifi and the



Lunchtime12:15 Robson’s Extreme

Fishing Challenge13:15 Home and Away13:45 Neighbours14:20 The Mentalist15:15 Film Impact17:00 5 News at 517:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Police Interceptors20:00 Benidorm ER21:00 Countdown to

Murder22:00 Person of Interest23:00 Law and Order:

Criminal Intent00:00 Super Casino

11:30 Football Gold12:00 What´s the Story?13:00 UEFA Champions

League Goals14:00 Sporting Heroes15:00 What´s the Story?16:00 UEFA Champions

League Goals17:00 FIFA Futbol Mundial17:30 Prem. League World18:00 Ringside19:00 FL72 Preview20:00 The Rugby Club21:00 Ringside22:00 FL72 Preview23:00 Ringside

08:00 WWE: Experience09:00 Cricket10:00 POwerboating11:00 Watersports World12:00 Cricket13:00 Test Cricket14:00 Cricket15:00 Test Cricket16:00 Cricket17:00 Racemax18:00 Cricket19:00 Test Cricket20:00 Cricket21:00 Test Cricket22:00 The Rugby Club23:00 Live Cricket


Hammer11:00 Saints and Scroungers11:45 Escape to the Country12:15 Bargain Hunt13:00 BBC News at One13:30 Regional News



and Weather19:00 The One Show19:30 A Question of Sport20:00 EastEnders20:30 Room 10121:00 Have I Got News for

You21:30 Citizen Khan22:00 BBC News at Ten22:25 Regional News

and Weather22:35 The Graham NortonShow23:20 Bluestone 4223:50 Film The 13th Warrior01:30 Weatherview01:35 BBC News




08:15 RealRescues

09:00 Flog it! TradeSecrets

10:00 Question Time11:00 BBC News11:30 BBC World

News12:00 The Daily Politics14:00 Tennis17:00 Flog It!18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come

Dancing: It Takes Two19:00 Celebrity Antiques

Road Trip20:00 Mastermind20:30 Gardeners’

World21:00 Cold War, Hot Jets22:00 QI22:30 Newsnight23:05 Later... with Jools

Holland00:10 Film Spider01:45 Question

Time02:45 The Paradise03:45 This is BBC

Two


Show10:30 This








Street20:00 Off the Beaten

Track20:30 Coronation

Street21:00 The Nation’s

Favourite Elvis Song22:30 ITV News and

Weather23:05 Film Wanted01:00 Jackpot24703:00 Columbo

07:30 Will and Grace07:55 Everybody Loves




Home Cooking12:35 River Cottage Bites12:50 Film Escape to

Athena15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:30 Unreported World19:55 4thought.tv20:00 Marvel’s Agents of

S.H.I.E.L.D.21:00 8 Out of 10 Cats21:30 Man Down22:00 Alan Carr: Chatty

Man23:05 Stand Up for the

Week23:55 Was it Something I

Said?00:40 Gogglebox01:25 Random Acts01:30 Film Greenberg

06:55 Little Princess07:10 Ben and Holly’s

Little Kingdom07:20 The Mr Men Show07:35 Thomas and Friends07:45 Noddy in Toyland08:00 Fifi and the



Lunchtime12:15 Construction Squad:

OperationHomefront

13:15 Home and Away13:45 Neighbours14:20 The Mentalist15:15 Film Meltdown:

Days of Destruction17:00 5 News at 517:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Chris Tarrant Goes

Fishing20:00 Stobart: Trucks,

Trains and Planes21:00 Greatest Kids TV

Shows00:00 Super Casino

09:00 FL72 Preview10:00 The Rugby Club11:00 Ringside12:00 NFL13:00 Football15:00 The Rugby Club16:00 FL72 Preview17:00 NFL18:00 Champ. Leag. Weekly18:30 The Fantasy

Football Club19:30 Live Victory Shield

Football21:30 The Fantasy

Football Club22:30 Prem. Leag. Preview

09:00 Cricket10:00 WWE: Raw12:00 Cricket13:00 Test Cricket14:00 Cricket15:00 WWE: Raw17:00 Premier League

World17:30 Test

Cricket18:30 Cricket19:30 Live Anglo-Welsh

Cup Rugby Union22:00 NFL-A FOotball

Life23:00 Live Cricket

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SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2013

06:00 Breakfast09:15 Saturday Kitchen10:45 TBA12:15 Football

Focus12:50 Saturday

Sportsday13:00 BBC

News13:10 BBC London

News13:15 TBA14:00 Rugby League World

Cup16:30 Final Score17:20 BBC

News17:30 BBC London

News17:40 Pointless18:30 Strictly Come

Dancing20:00 Atlantis20:50 The National Lottery

Live21:00 BBC

News21:15 Festival of

Remembrance22:50 Match of the

Day00:10 The Football League

Show01:10 Weatherview01:15 BBC

News

06:00 TBA09:05 The Sky at

Night09:25 Reel History of

Britain

07:00 Canimals07:25 Sooty07:35 Horrid Henry07:50 Teenage Mutant

Ninja Turtles08:15 Bottom Knocker

Street08:30 The Munch Box09:25 ITV News09:30 Saturday Cookbook10:30 The

Unforgettable...11:00 ITV News and

Weather11:05 Surprise Surprise12:05 TBA15:15 Film Star Wars:

Episode IV - A NewHope

17:35 Regional Newsand Weather

17:45 ITV News andWeather

18:00 You’ve BeenFramed!

18:30 Fool Britannia19:00 The Chase:

Celebrity Special20:00 The X Factor21:40 The Jonathan Ross

Show22:40 ITV News and

Weather22:55 TBA00:25 Take Me Out01:40 Jackpot247

06:15 The Hoobs07:00 Volleyball08:00 The Morning Line09:00 The American

Football Show10:00 Frasier10:30 Everybody Loves

Raymond11:00 The Big Bang Theory12:00 The Simpsons12:30 Heston’s Gothic

Horror Feast13:30 Channel 4 Racing16:00 Come Dine with Me18:30 Channel 4 News19:00 Marvel’s Agents of

S.H.I.E.L.D.20:00 Grand Designs21:00 TBA01:15 Stand Up for the

Week

06:15 Fifi and theFlowertots

06:25 Bubble Guppies06:35 The Mr. Men Show06:50 Chloe’s Closet07:05 Roobarb and

Custard Too07:10 Bananas in

Pyjamas07:25 Make Way for

Noddy07:40 City of Friends07:55 Little Princess08:10 The Adventures of


08:25 Angelina Ballerina08:45 Rupert Bear09:00 Ben and Holly’s



Car09:45 Jelly Jamm10:00 Power Rangers:

Megaforce10:35 Slugterra11:00 The Dog Rescuers11:30 TBA20:25 5 News20:30 Lost Heroes of

WW1: Britain at War21:00 TBA00:00 Super Casino

09:00 GameChangers

10:00 Soccer AM12:00 FL72 Live14:30 SAturday Team

Talk15:00 Soccer Saturday17:00 Live SAturday

Night Football20:00 SNF-Game of the

Day22:00 SNF-Match Choice23:30 FL72 Highlights00:00 Saturday

Reloaded

09:00 Cricket10:00 WWE:

Smackdown12:00 Sporting

Greats12:30 Cricket13:30 Live International

Rugby Union17:00 Live Woemn´s

Rugby Union22:00 International

RugbyUnion

23:00 WOmen´s RugbyUnion

09:55 The Life ofBirds

10:45 TBA12:15 The A to Z of TV

Cooking13:00 MotoGP14:00 Tennis17:00 TBA20:30 Dad’s Army

Melvyn Bragg, accompanied by avintage mobile cinema, travelsacross the country, to show in-credible footage preserved by theBritish Film Institute and othernational and regional film ar-chives, to tell the history of mod-ern Britain.

21:00 TBA22:20 TOTP 2

Steve Wright’s here again to lendhis wit to another selection ofpop greats and not-so-greats.

Classic wartime sitcom about agroup of man - not able to takeup active service due to their age- who set up their town’s HomeGuard in the Second World War.

02:10 Hollyoaks Omnibus

Stand Up for the Week is a newlate-night series of edgy satiri-cal takes on the big stories andthemes of the week, as seenthrough the eyes of some ofthe country’s best comedians.Hosted by Patrick Kielty, with aregular team of stand ups: RichHall, Jack Whitehall, Andi Oshoand Kevin Bridges who give theiruniquely incisive take on theweek’s politics, sport and ce-lebrity news.

06:00 Breakfast07:40 Match of the

Day09:00 The Andrew Marr

Show10:25 Cenotaph12:10 Sunday

Politics13:25 BBC

News13:40 EastEnders Omnibus15:30 TBA16:05 Points of View16:20 Songs of Praise16:55 TBA17:55 BBC


and Weather18:15 Countryfile19:20 Strictly Come

Dancing20:00 The

Paradise21:00 Richard Hammond

Builds a Universe22:00 BBC


and Weather22:25 Match of the

Day 223:45 Rugby

League00:30 Weatherview00:35 BBC News

06:00 TBA08:00 Alan Titchmarsh’s

Garden Secrets09:00 Gardeners’

World09:30 Saturday Kitchen

Best Bites11:00 Rugby Union12:00 MOTD2

Extra12:30 MotoGP14:00 Tennis17:00 TBA20:00 Africa 2013:


21:00 TBA22:00 Mock the Week

06:10 Matt HatterChronicles

06:35 Dino Dan07:00 Canimals07:25 Sooty07:35 Horrid Henry07:50 Big Time Rush08:15 Bottom Knocker

Street08:30 Fort Boyard09:25 ITV News09:30 Inside the National

Trust10:30 Sunday Side Up11:30 Sunday Scoop12:30 ITV News and

Weather12:35 Countrywise12:50 Columbo14:20 Fool Britannia14:50 The X Factor16:30 Downton Abbey17:35 Prize Island18:35 Regional News

and Weather18:45 ITV News and

Weather19:00 Surprise Surprise20:00 The X Factor

Results Show21:00 Downton Abbey22:30 ITV News and

Weather22:45 TBA23:45 Rugby Highlights00:45 The Store

07:00 The AmericanFootball Show

08:00 Everybody LovesRaymond

09:00 Frasier09:30 Sunday Brunch12:30 The Big Bang Theory13:30 The Simpsons14:30 TBA18:55 Channel 4 News19:25 The Political Slot19:30 Digging the Great

Escape

06:25 Bubble Guppies06:35 The Mr. Men Show06:50 Chloe’s Closet07:05 Roobarb and

Custard Too07:10 Bananas in

Pyjamas07:25 Make Way for

Noddy07:40 City of Friends07:55 Little Princess08:10 The Adventures of


08:25 Angelina Ballerina08:45 Rupert Bear09:00 Ben and Holly’s



Car09:45 Jelly Jamm10:00 Power Rangers

Super Samurai10:35 Slugterra11:00 TBA11:15 Britain’s Secret

Schindler12:15 Goering’s Last

Secret: Revealed13:15 TBA20:55 5 News21:00 TBA01:20 Super Casino

08:15 GameChangers

08:30 The SundaySupplement

09:30 Goals onSunday

11:30 Live SUperSunday

19:00 Live SpanishFootball

22:00 FootballSpecial

23:30 Champions LeagueWeekly

00:00 SpanishFootball


10:00 Women´s RugbyUnion

11:00 Game Changers12:00 International Rugby

Union13:00 This Week in WWE13:30 WWE: Smackdown15:30 WWE: Bottom

Line16:30 NFl-A Football

Life17:30 Live NFL00:30 NFL-A Football

Life

22:30 QI XL23:15 Never Mind the

Buzzcocks

Comedy show combining thebest elements of panel show,stand-up and improvisedgames with two teams of co-medians taking a satirical swipeat the news and world events.


Irreverent pop quiz, with guestcompetitors from the worlds ofmusic, TV and comedy.

21:00 Homeland22:05 Was it Something I

Said?22:35 Toast of London

This fascinating programmebrings back to life the incrediblestory of the Great Escape, im-mortalised by Hollywood, andinternationally famous as anextraordinary example of humancourage and ingenuity. It followsa team of engineers, archae-ologists, and serving RAF offic-ers who have gathered on thesite of Stalag Luft III, the sup-posedly escape-proof POWcamp, with an extraordinarilyambitious plan: to excavate forthe first time ever the remainsof ‘Harry’, the tunnel from which76 allied airmen escaped on thenight of 24 March 1944.

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and Puds16:30 Antiques Road Trip17:15 Pointless18:00 BBC News18:30 Regional News19:00 The One Show19:30 Caught Red

Handed20:00 EastEnders20:30 Panorama21:00 Ripper Street22:00 BBC News22:25 Regional News22:30 Weather22:35 Have I Got a Bit More

News for You23:20 Citizen Khan23:50 The Graham Norton


10:00 James Martin’sFood Map of Britain

10:30 Click10:55 BBC News11:30 World News12:00 The Daily Politics13:00 Rugby League13:45 Cash in the Attic14:30 Floyd on Food

Britain and Ireland15:00 Cagney and Lacey15:45 Are You Being

Served?16:15 ‘Allo, ‘Allo!16:45 Fred Dibnah’s

World of Steam,Steel and Stone

17:15 Flog It!18:00 Eggheads18:30 Strictly Come



20:00 UniversityChallenge


21:00 The Choir22:00 Never Mind the

Buzzcocks22:30 Newsnight23:20 Rugby League23:50 Africa 2013:



Show10:30 This Morning11:25 ITV News11:30 This Morning12:30 Loose

Women13:30 ITV News and

Weather14:00 Peter Andre’s 60

Minute Makeover15:00 The Alan Titchmarsh

Show16:00 Tipping

Point17:00 The Paul O’Grady

Show18:00 Local News and

Weather18:30 ITV News and


Street20:00 Tales From

Northumberlandwith Robson Green

20:30 Coronation Street21:00 A Mother’s Son22:00 ITV News at Ten

and Weather22:35 The Agenda23:10 Army Vets00:05 Jackpot247




Summary12:05 TBA12:25 Film Carry on Dick14:10 Phil: Secret Agent

Down Under15:10 Countdown16:00 Deal or No Deal17:00 Four in a Bed17:30 Come Dine with

Me18:00 The Simpsons18:30 Hollyoaks19:00 Channel 4 News19:55 4thought.tv20:00 Dispatches20:30 Health Freaks21:00 999: What’s Your

Emergency?22:00 Fresh Meat22:50 Cardinal Burns23:20 TBA23:55 The Shooting Gallery00:25 Rory Peck Awards

201300:30 Film The Women02:30 Nashville

06:00 Milkshake!09:15 The Wright

Stuff11:10 The Hotel

Inspector12:10 5 News12:15 The Woman with 40

Cats... And OtherPet Hoarders

13:15 Home andAway

13:45 Neighbours14:15 The

Mentalist15:15 Film Mystery

Woman: In theShadows

17:00 5 News17:30 Neighbours18:00 Home and

Away18:30 Newstalk Live19:00 Construction Squad:

OperationHomefront

20:00 The GadgetShow

21:00 The Evidence22:00 Under the

Dome23:00 Film Out for

Justice00:45 TBA01:15 Super Casino03:05 Countdown to

Murder

05:00 Ford FootballSpecial

06:30 Champions LeagueWeekly

07:30 FootballGold

08:00 Grand Slam ofDarts

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PUERTO DELIGHT

THE popular choir “La Reyes Bartlet” is con-tinuing to hold its matinee concerts, despitework to its usual venue.

Popular choir in winter concerts

With the Castillo San Felipeat Puerto de la Cruz under-going refurbishment, the Sala

Timanfaya is being usedinstead and is proving an idealalternative.

The next concert is onNovember 1st and although nota Sunday, it’s a public holidayto commemorate All Saints’Day. The Reyes Bartlet CulturalAssociation will celebrate witha concert dedicated to ErnestoLecuona with Rafael Balma-seda on piano and BeatrizRamos as soprano.

Then on November 10th,pianist Saúl González Salazartakes to the stage with arepertoire consisting of JohannSebastian Bach, Ludwig VanBeethoven and FredericChopin.

The Socos Duo perform onNovember 17th with CésarMartín and Ciro Hernándezperforming songs by OsvaldoGolijov, Joseph Hallman andAstor Piazzola.

Then, on November 24th, theTrío Rêve de Nuit will be at the

Sala Timanfaya, with TairumaMéndez (soprano), MarcosDepetris (violín) and PabloHernández (piano) recreatingthe sounds of Johann Sebas-tian Bach, Georg FriedrichHandel and Wolfgang Ama-deus Mozart.

Tickets can be purchasedon the day of the concerts at aprice of 10 euros and can alsobe booked in advance [email protected] emailand on the phone 922 386 974and 696 227 636, as well as atthe Puerto CIT and the touristinformation office at Casa dela Aduana.

These concerts are provinga great success, particularlyduring the winter monthswhen a lot of swallows are intown and there is wide appealfor residents and all visitorsalike.

WALK PREVIEW

IF you want to get involved in this year’s Racefor Life or “carrera por la vida” in the south,start planning now.

Paving theway for Racefor Life

In fact, there is an additionalway you can give your supportto this annual event which takesplace on December 15th.

On this occasion, as anovelty, people can participatein the selection of the design ofthe solidarity tee-shirt that willbe used on race day. Go towww.adeje.es and click on thehealth section for details. Youwill be asked to vote for thedesign you like best.

Councillor for health forAdeje, Rafael Dolado Garcíarecalls that last October 19th

was the World Day againstBreast Cancer. This day andthroughout the year, it isemphasised that earlydiagnosis is the best weaponagainst breast cancer. Accor-ding to the World Health Organi-sation, there is a breast cancerdiagnosis somewhere in theworld every 30 seconds.

Adeje is moving itscommemorations of the WorldDay against Breast Cancer toDecember to coincide withthe Race for Life. This is anevent where Arona and Adejecombine to show theirsolidarity.

Organiser, Briguitte Gupensaid the aim was to raisemoney for research as well asto raise awareness about thedisease.

Last year, there was a greatturnout and the streets of CostaAdeje became a tide of pinkwith more than 2,300 peopletaking part. There is a warminvitation to all to take part.

The theme for the 2013event is “Walking is help” . Themeeting point will be theMagma Centre near the busstation in Playa de lasAmericas and the start timewill be 11am.

“Ten-DiezMovement”in Adeje

TEN-Diez Movement” showcases the work often artists from Spain, Brazil, England, Rus-sia and Australia. Each is presenting ten pieces

with very different styles.The exhibition opened on October 26th but can be seen until

November 2nd at the Magma Arts and Congress Centre which isthe unusual stone building not far from Playa de las Americas busstation.

This is the second exhibition and Adeje council believes ithelps to put the municipality at the forefront of art and culture.

There are photographs, illustrations, drawings, poetry, livemusic, talks, presentations, mini-workshops and sculpture as partof the initiative.

Artists from all over the worldare taking part in a large-scaleexhibition in Costa Adeje

TEN ARTISTS

THE initiative “Rutas de Autor” is designed to give hikers a different experience and will be launchedwith a weekend over November 5th/6th involving a visit to Arico and Fasina led by Pedro DavidRodríguez. This will include star-gazing and overnight stay in a rural casa.

The viewpoints of Teide National Park will be visited on November 23rd and the series will come to a close on November 30th witha walk to the Montaña Samara.

Heritage councillor, Jacob Donate González said the aim was to have walks led by guides who knew the areas well and couldrelate their personal experiences and the associated stories and legends.

Keep up to date on www.granadilladeabonar.org

GUIDED TOURS

Routes with a personal touch

Granadilla isoffering a new seriesof guided routes witha personal touch

Pets with a spooky theme!

SUBMIT a photo of your pooch with a Hal-loween theme and the three winning imageswill receive a copy of Nikki Attree’s “Nobody’s

Poodle” - a wooftastic short novel about Gizmo, aloveable ex-pat pooch uprooted from his home incold, damp, muddy old England to start a new lifein Tenerife.

Forty kilos of dog food willalso be donated to the TierraBlanca dog refuge charity aspart of the prize and Nikki isinviting businesses (perhapspet shops or vets?) orindividuals to match thisdonation. So far 160 kg hasalready been pledged to help

keep some dogs from goinghungry.

Please email [email protected]. All photogra-phs will be displayed on SnrGizmo’s facebook page andnobodyspoodle.com website.Closing date for entries isNovember 15th.

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Tasca Casa Paco,Los Cristianos

Tasca Casa Paco is a hugely popular restaurant because itoffers a real taste of Spain right in the heart of Los Cristianos.

It has become known as the restaurant with the singingchef because owner Paco is always singing and mostevenings will take to his guitar and sing Spanish and Englishsongs with great expertise.

There are more than 30 dishes on the menu and a winelist with over 50 choices. Paco is passionate about his foodand only uses fresh ingredients. You can watch him as hecreates your meal with an artistic flair. He’s like a maestroconducting an orchestra. People often talk about this placefor weeks after their visit because it is a unique experienceover and above the excellent cuisine. It’s not surprising it ishighly rated on TripAdvisor, having recently held the numbertwo spot for Los Cristianos.

It’s easy to find near the cultural centre as you walk intoCristianos town. Find the two petrol stations and it’s on theleft of the one in the centre of the road.

Tipsy Terrace,Los Gigantes

Tipsy Terrace in Los Gigantes is described as one of thefriendliest places around and you will see why when you visit.

This delightful venue is run with great enthusiasm by ownersSally and Sarah. They love to celebrate special occasions anddates in the calendar and have become experts in providing greatentertainment and lovely decorations.

It is not by chance that it has become a favourite place for manypeople, locals and holiday-makers alike.

You will find great home cooking and dishes to suit all tastes,from breakfast through to evening meals and everything in between.

Tap into their menu on www.tipsy-terrace.net and you can seeall the choices for yourself, from Tipsy’s Ploughman’s and Riseand Shine sandwiches to wraps, jacket potatoes, burgers, crunchysalads, light lunches and much, much more. Tipsy Terrace alsohas a swimming pool, tennis, mini-golf and lovely gardens. It iseasy to find as it is just by the coach and bus stops.

Restaurant Algarrobo,Las Candidas

This family run restaurant is situated in the well-knownand much visited venue in Las Candidas (La Orotava).The current owners are brothers Toño (front of house) andCristóbal (head chef).

They have carried on the family tradition of offering topquality products at affordable prices whilst bringing themenu up to date. There is a lively atmosphere here withsome really unusual dishes to taste. All the dishes arefresh using vegetables from the market. The cuisine istraditional with a modern slant without being too overelaborate.

They specialise in roast lamb and suckling pig and fishlovers have a huge choice. You will find RestaurantAlgarrobo in Las Candidas just off the road between ElMonasterio and La Orotava. A great place for parties,communions, business meetings etc.

Electra,San Blas, Golf del Sur

Some chefs just seem to draw the crowds and Paolo,now back at Electra, is one of them.

He produces the most exquisite dishes as a labour oflove, using an unusual combination of ingredients andalways creating beautifully-looking plates. He is also a wineexpert and will happily chat to you and recommend choicesto go with your meals. He believes the two must perfectlycomplement each other.

Electra is a relatively small restaurant on the first line ofSan Blas Square but it oozes charm and style and has alovely interior with clever attention to the design. This alsoapplies to the cutlery, plates and glasses which combine topresent a very inviting table. There is also a small terraceoutside if you want a table under the stars or to enjoy thesun.

The food is always freshly cooked and diners over thelast few months have enthused over dishes such as thesteak (“Fantastic”), sea bream cooked in sea salt (“Thebest I have ever tasted”) and the tapas with a twist.

“The best food I have ever eaten, amazing presentationand service. Unbelievable quality and quantity of food.Brilliant prices. Absolutely five stars!” is just one of theglowing reviews on TripAdvisor

Tapas ‘n’ Chill, Golf del Sur

If you’re looking for tapas with flair and a chill-out atmosphere, this is the place to head for.A very popular restaurant, it is in the same ownership as Volare cabaret lounge next door so if you haven’t booked or arrive early,

you can just pop in here for a pre-dinner drink (and go back afterwards for the entertainment!)Owner Gary is now in the kitchen and produces mouth-watering tapas dishes which are different and delicious. He has a great

passion for cooking and this is reflected in creations such as“Meatballs in a slightly spicy creamy curry” or “Flakes of salmon, white and smoked fish potato cake with a chilli mint dip”.

Couples usually have four to five dishes between them so they can share and get a variety of tastes. Don’t miss the house potatoes!Tapas & Chill is open seven nights a week from 6pm. If you are driving through Golf del Sur, go past the Winter Gardens bowling

green on your right, take the next turning right and double back on yourself. Look out for the Apartamentos Aquamarine Golf on theleft (opposite Best Buys supermarket) and there is a sloping pathway down to the sea next to it. Walk down here and Tapas & Chill ison the right.

Tressardi, Puerto de la Cruz

If you want to seek out a really good Italian restaurant at anaffordable price, look no further than Tressardi in Puerto de laCruz.

This well established Italian restaurant and pizzeria is managedby three partners from Sardinia and can be found in La Paz (themain tourist area of Puerto).

It offers a very varied menu including traditional Italian dishes,pizza and pasta with gorgeous fillings and sauces, meat dishes,fresh fish and crunchy salads. You can accompany it with anItalian wine or cold beer whilst enjoying romantic soothing Italianmusic. The desserts like tiramisu and panna- cota are to die for!

Depending on your choices the price averaging 15-16 Eurosper person is what you can expect.

So if you want a good Italian restaurant for a family meal, aromantic dinner, a quick lunch when working or a take away,Tressardi is the restaurant for you. A friendly and homelyrestaurant that has quality products combining fast food andwell prepared dishes for kids and grown ups.

Maria Restaurant/Lounge Bar, Golf del Sur

More exciting things are happening at this restaurant by the ocean.Owners Patricia and Sarah are starting regular BBQ nights, the first of which is on November 5th at 7.30pm. There will be live music

and dance from saxophonist, Will Appleby and it is hoped the next after that will be November 24th.The restaurant offers a great menu and specialises in meat and paella. It is now also open for lunch (from 1pm Wednesday to

Sunday, from 5.30pm on a Tuesday and closed Mondays) and you can enjoy three courses for just 8.50 euros. You might be longingfor an English-style high tea with a tiered tray of sandwiches, cream scones, strawberries, mini-cakes, tea or coffee and fresh orange,a real treat at 19 euros for two.

This is a gorgeous restaurant, day or night, with a sea view and terrace in a wonderful location right next to a sea walk and oncediscovered, it becomes a firm favourite with all nationalities. Because it is situated within the Nautico suites complex, some peoplebelieve it is either private, expensive or “too posh”. Not so!

You will receive a very friendly welcome and the food is wonderful and affordable. A glass of wine or a large Dorada is just twoeuros, for instance, and tea/coffee and a toastie 3.50 euros.

Follow the one-way system through Golf del Sur and watch out for the Nautico sign just after the S-bends on your right. Maria is atthe far end of the Nautico building with parking available. Alternatively, it is five minutes’ walk from the bottom of San Blas square, turnright along the flat side road or sea-front.

TACOA Cerveceria & Restaurante,El Sauzal

This brewery and restaurant is a unique place to visit and if you see their excellent website of www.tacoa.com, it will give you ataste of what to expect.

All the food served here is home-made and has its roots in traditional German cuisine. The menu also features Canary and Spanishdishes with a host of appetisers, delicious salads, smoked items, home-made desserts and more.

The beer is made on the premises and conforms to German purity laws that prohibits additives and preservatives. Five types aremanufactured - clara, cobre, negra, trigo and fiesta and depending on the season, there are specials like the Tacoa October and inDecember, Tacoa-Navidad with a touch of cinnamon. The brewery is situated within the premises which is typical of such establishments.Its atmosphere is warm and relaxed, inspired by the German beer.

TACOA offers its customers two terraces (with smoking zone), a recreation area for children and a room adapted for the disabled.There is also parking.

TACOA also offers for groups of 4, 50% payment on the taxi ride back home to Puerto de la Cruz, La Laguna or Bajamar.The kitchen is open continuously from 12.30pm each day and all events can be organised for up to 130 people. There is also a shop

and beer tastings from artesans of the island are being organised. See Facebook for announcements. Find TACOA at CarreteraGeneral del Norte, 122. El Sauzal, telephone 922 56 41 73 (email [email protected]).

The Potter Inn,Puerto Colón

When out and about in the Puerto Colón area, where on earthdo you head for when you want good value food, great drinkoffers and a friendly family atmosphere?

Can we point you in the direction of The Potter Inn (formerlyGeordie Pride) which is still under the same ownership of Markand Kerry despite the name change.

It is now home for the Tenerife Potters (Stoke City’s officialsupporters’ club on the island) with all fixtures being shown, aswell as other matches. If you are from the Stoke area, you willhave a special affinity but everyone is guaranteed a warmwelcome.

All sorts of food is available but of particular value is the specialevening menu, Monday to Friday, 5.30pm to 9pm, with twocourses for 5.95 euros and three courses for 7.45 euros. It’s greatcooking with generous portions.

Every weekday from 3.30pm to 7.30pm is Happy Hour withlots of two for one offers (ie two local spirit and mixers for 2.50euros!). There are breakfasts, lunches, snacks and main meals,plus a hugely popular Sunday lunch.

The best way to Potter Inn is down the steps at the taxi rank atPuerto Colon and then turn left. The frontage looks small butinside is deceptively spacious, with a terrace at the front and atthe back overlooking the harbour.


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Creativo – Gourmet Bistro RestaurantCaféPlaya de San Juan

Creativo San Juan is a quality bistro restaurant-café barlocated on the church square in the centre of this charmingtraditional fishing village. Offering a relaxed and informalenvironment, it is run by husband and wife team Klaus(Danish) and Eva (Canary).

Creativo gained its name from Klaus’s ambition to deliverfabulous creative dishes to excite the taste buds whilst at thesame time being attractively priced. He combines his manyyears of experience as a chef in starred restaurants inDenmark with his own innovative flair for turning locallysourced fresh ingredients into something very special andcompletely different.

During the day, why not try a simple delicious lunch of Danishopen sandwiches and tapas or perhaps come in the evening forsomething more exotic like roast lamb or cider pork. Choosefrom a simple one course to a three or four course menu withwine for a fine dining experience. Alternatively just enjoy sittingon the square and having a drink with friends. If you come on aWednesday, you can see the local market in the square and stopin for a coffee break or lunch.

Children and dogs are also catered for. A delightful, honestand refreshing venue catering for all. For reservations call 650-609-791.

Mamma Rosa,Playa de las Américas

Mamma Rosa is one of the longest established restaurants in the south of Tenerife and has an extensive menu and a modernambiance which appeals to all ages.

For more than 22 years, it has offered elegance, top-class cuisine, an excellent varied wine list and, of course, theservice you would expect.

The restaurant is next to the Colón II apartments at the end of The Patch (near the last roundabout, with SantanderBank on the corner, and not far from the Hotel Palmeras). The cuisine is described as classical Italian andScandinavian with Spanish and French influences, blended together and cooked in a modern style. Part of the newapproach is to offer a very extensive fish menu. As with the meat, the restaurant tries where possible to buy localproduce and support the islands’ agriculture. Likewise, the wine list allows you to choose a Canary Island wine,together with wines from around the globe such as the mainland, Italy, France etc.

Bar El Pincho, Paseo Las Vistas,Los Cristianos

With so many bars and restaurants along the sea-front of the main Las Vistas beach in Los Cristianos, where on earth do you headfor?

Why not try Bar El Pincho where you can enjoy good prices, good food, good service and a fantastic view of the ocean as you watchthe world go by.

Bar El Pincho is winning many fans because of the friendly staff you encounter and the really delicious Spanish tapas.Opened about two years ago, customers of all nationalities come here, including the British, Spanish, German, Dutch and French.It’s a lovely place and one of the bargains they offer is a combination of tapas for two for just 8.50 euros. You can’t go wrong with

this. There is also a wide selection of main plates, such as steak, chicken and fish, all cooked with love and the best ingredients theycan find.

The owners really mean it when they say customer satisfaction is paramount so do ask if there is something special you would likeor arranged.

Every two weeks, you will find live music and do try the fantastic cocktails which they always try to improve. Try also the specialdishes from the north of the island and the drinks.

The aim is to make you feel at home which regular customers say is definitely the case. Please note, Bar El Pincho is closed onSundays so the staff can spend some valuable time with their families as well.

Casa Tagoro Restaurant & Gastrobar,Los Cristianos

This new restaurant in the centre of Los Cristianos is beingdescribed as “a dream come true” and “amazing”.

This really is somewhere very different to enjoy, offering afantastic menu with specialities from all over the world, Spanishtapas, fresh fish, meat dishes, a four or six course tasting menu,a Thai fondu, Bavarian roast pork on a Sunday and many moregourmet delights.

Yet it is more than this. The decor and atmosphere is veryspecial. It is bright and spacious, featuring antique furniture,different areas to sit inside and out, a bar area from where youcan watch the chef cooking, a large interior dining room (50seats) and a cosy lounge corner (seats ten). The shady terracealso seats 20 and is the smoking area.

Hosts Karin and Gerhard describe a visit here as a culinaryjourney and a chance to enjoy new tastes and a specialexperience in the touristic south of Tenerife. Depending on theseason, there are special events and theme nights. When inGranadilla, the restaurant was recommended in the Michelinguide in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

You can book the restaurant for all special occasions, in partor whole, and for a special present, you can buy a restaurantvoucher. See their website on www.casatagoro.de for all options(in English), including a vineyard special with catering etc.

The restaurant is at calle Valle de Menendez 28, 50 metresbelow the little white church and behind the hotel Reveron.

Bodeguita Algarrobo,Puerto de la Cruz

Across the street from the Botánico Hotel is the small butchic “Bodegita Algarrobo”.

A family-run business with a long history of restaurateurs,the restaurant was opened by Cristobal and Antonio whoseparents founded the Algarrobo in La Orotava more than threedecades ago, so it has a fine pedigree.

The cuisine served here is local Canary food with somesurprisingly original features and the most exquisite flavours.Piquillo peppers stuffed with mushrooms and prawns, hakemounted on a tower of perfectly cooked, seasonally freshveg, Canary “wrinkled” potatoes with a twist, lamb estofado,an inside-out pie without the pastry, fig biscuit with chocolatesauce, pork steak with caramelised onions open sandwiches,stuffed leak with cheese and belly of pork fritters, piquillopeppers stuffed with mushrooms and prawns. These are justsome of the dishes which have enchanted diners of allnationalities throughout the day and night. Some British touristseat here four times during a week’s holiday! Plan a visit andyou will see why for yourself.




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the newly-opened gastrobar and restaurant in LosCristianos.

Dreams come true at Casa TagoroA gastronomic delight

Owners Karin and GerhardBrodtrager come from Ger-many and Austria respectivelyso the famous dishes of theirhome countries obviouslyfeature on the very interestingmenu.

But this is an internationalrestaurant, with Italian risottowith asparagus, champinionsand parmesan (13.80 euros)sitting happily alongside thelikes of Bavarian roast pork inbeer sauce with dumplingsand cabbage salad with baconeach Sunday (12.80 euros),French goat’s cheese withbalsamic, onions and mush-rooms au gratin (7.90 euros),home-made Austrian applestrudel with vanilla ice-creamand whipped cream (5.50euros), Canary tapas such asPimientos de Padron (little friedpeppers with ocean salt) at 5.50euros or even German breadand dripping with crackling asa snack (2.50 euros).

Karin and Gerhard alreadyhave a loyal fan base becauseCasa Tagoro used to be in anold mansion-style house inGranadilla and achieved hugesuccess since opening in 2000.In June, however, the coupledecided to move to a moreconvenient location and chosea corner property in calle Vallede Menendez, Los Cristianos,about a minute’s walk from thelittle white church andlikewise from the harbour

beach area.The interior is stunning, in

warm terracotta and greens,with beautiful table settingsand a small seating areaoutside. The walls are adornedwith all sorts of paintings indifferent styles, as well asplaques showing the successof the previous Granadillavenue (recommended in theMichelin guide for Spain andPortugal in 2010, 2011 and2012 and awarded two forkand spoons in 2013). We alsonoticed another large framedcertificate and chain of officewhich commemorates Ger-hard’s gastronomic achieve-ments.

He has been cooking since“so high” (he holds the palm ofhis hand leg-high so that meansvery young!) and admits it is ahuge part of his life. I ask himhow long he spends in thekitchen and he says: “Probablymore time than with my wife!”It is, of course, in jest as theyare very much a team in allrespects, helped by wonderfulstaff, including maitre d’ Axelwho looked after us during ourreview night and made surewe wanted for nothing.

The pleasing thing aboutreviewing such restaurants isthat we are able to introduceother people to them. Regularreaders might get fed-up withour glowing praise but we haveto say the food at Casa Tagoro

is exquisite and there weremany surprises in store for us.

The first was a welcomeglass of ice-cold Spanishchampagne with home-madebasil essence, created by Axel,and one of the nicest drinkswe have ever had. There are,of course, some secret in-gredients which cannot berevealed but we suggested hemight like to bottle it and sell itas a brand in itself!

The lay-out of Casa Tagorois such that half of the restaurantruns alongside the open-plankitchen and you are actively

encouraged to sit at the bar ona stool and watch Gerhard atwork with his colleagues.Despite being on the go all thetime, he still finds time to talkto you and to come out into therestaurant to chat to guests.This means he can re-commend dishes to suit yourtastes and help with anyspecific requests or dietaryrequirements. The motto hereis very much: “We are able torealise almost any possiblewish.”

The restaurant produceseverything fresh, uses noglutamates or artificial flavoursand never, ever any conve-

nience foods. We loved thetouch of using little real flowerpetals to garnish dishes.

One of the difficulties youwill face is choosing just whatto eat. I decided to try thespecial tasting menu whichchanges with the seasons andcosts 35 euros for four courses,inclusive of the champagnecocktail or 45 euros for sixcourses. This is a great way toget to know the dishes whichyou might want to order as amain course next time orrepeat the experience. Myfavourite was the risotto withred beets and delicacies of thequail which would normally be16.50 euros.

Every course was wonder-ful, however, including the tunatartar with mango and carame-lized chicoree (normally 11.80euros for a full plate) and thehome-made ravioli topped onminced pumpkin ragout(normally 10.80 euros).

My husband decided tochoose from the main menuand loved the creamy tomatosoup with breadcrumbs andwhipped cream (4.80 euros)which comes with anothersurprise – a shot of the gin ofyour choice. Just don’t coughwhen Axel pours it in for you!After pinching forkfuls of mytasting dishes, he then de-clared the pork fillet meda-llions with honey-mustardsauce with vegetables and

p o t a t o e s(17.80 eu-ros) as the“the bestpork I haveever tasted”. This is differentto the Bavarian roasted porkfrom 1pm on a Sunday forwhich reservations are re-commended.

We finished off with Ger-hard’s speciality apple strudeland fig parfait with palm honey(normally 6.50 euros) but forme, part of the tasting menu.Simply delicious!

As you would expect, CasaTagoro offers an extensivewine list and it was lovely to

see Tenerife’s own labelsbeing championed herebecause the island is very keenthat people get to know andlike them.

We loved the attention todetail and the use of so manyunusual ingredients. Even theCasa Tagoro bread basket

came withc r e a m ycrab spr-ead, Hima-

laya salted butter, award-winning Spanish olive oil andFlor de Sal salt blossom of LaPalma. Half way through ourmeal, we were also surprisedwith little spoonfuls of gin andtonic jelly and the most tastefulfruits of the forest sorbet.

If you don’t want a full meal,just pop in for a drink, coffee,snack or cake. This is theperfect place for a specialcelebration and you can also

book the restaurant exclusivelyif you wish (maximum 60guests). For 35 to 55 guests,you can still enjoy the antiquemansion in Granadilla and acatering service is offered forlarger parties of 50 to 250 atone of the finest vineyards inthe south of Tenerife. Dreams

can come true in so manyways.

Casa Tagoro is at the backof the Hotel Reveron (whichis opposite the little whitechurch). Just walk down thesteps from the church plaza.It is closed on a Monday andalso on Tuesday lunchtimebut otherwise open every dayfrom 12.30pm to 3pm andfrom 6.30pm to 11pm andSundays from 12.30pm on-wards.

See www.casatagoro.com(available in English), phone822 660 833).



Rendezvous Restaurant/Bar andBistro,Golf del Sur

The Rendezvous in Golf del Sur offers diners a double delight.By day and in the evening, you can enjoy a full menu with great prices and big portions at the

Rendezvous Bar and Bistro, overlooking the bowling green at the Winter Gardens.In the evening, you might opt for the Rendezvous Restaurant which is just above it and offers

an extensive à la carte menu, fine wines and a relaxing night out to enjoy excellent cuisine ata leisurely pace.

“The Rendezvous Restaurant has a lovely ambience and it’s a restaurant where you can sitback and enjoy”.

The Winter Gardens is very easy to find and is on your right just as you drive into the Golfand where you can park. Just go through the main entrance and down the steps or ramps tofind Rendezvous. Booking is advised at the main restaurant because it is extremely popularand it’s testament to its success that diners come back time and time again.

The Pink Parrot,Las Galletas sea-front

A great name, great British cooking and a great location.What better reasons could there be than to visit The Pink

Parrot which is right on the sea-front promenade at Las Galletas?This is a beautiful flat location as you are literally a metre awayfrom the ocean with a panoramic view.

The Pink Parrot was taken over by Brenda and Mike a yearago and is a family-run café offering a traditional English menuwith daily specials and all home-made dishes. Specialitiesinclude cod, chips and mushy peas (delicious!), served only onFridays, Sunday roast, jacket potatoes and a special comboplatter for two people for only 8.50 euros. There is also a glutenfree menu and delicious home-made desserts. There is alsowifi.

Everyone who goes to Las Galletas falls in love with it and thesea-front promenade is just two minutes away from the banks,shops, post office etc. So with Pink Parrot in mind, you haveextra reason to visit and can just hop on a bus if you don’tdrive. It’s a great day out.

The restaurant is closed on a Monday but open 9.15am to5pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Friday 9.15am to8pm (last fish and chip orders 7pm), Saturday 9.15am to 4pmand Sunday 9am to 5pm. Brenda and Mike are happy to stayopen later for a private party or celebration, just ask.

Restaurante Magnolia, Puerto de la Cruz

Restaurante Magnolia has come a long way in the last three decades, starting life as a smallintimate restaurant with an outdoor terrace to the finished article we see today, with the terracenow covered and well spaced tables inside. The décor is pleasant and comfortable and makes youfeel at home right away. Windows run down both sides of the restaurant allowing the light to beamin, creating a bright atmosphere even on a dull day and there are lovely views.

The kitchen is open plan and creates the most wonderful Catalan and international dishes withan extensive menu of fish, shellfish, lamb, steaks, pastas. The combination of ingredients andflavours is wonderful with exquisite sauces.

This venue is always busy and customers are full of praise for the Restaurante Magnolia as oneof the finest places to eat on the island. The quality and service certainly stands out and the cost isvery reasonable indeed.

You will find Restaurante Magnolia opposite the Hotel Botánico on the main road, tucked into theside of Apartamentos Molino Blanco.

Restaurant La Bohème, Puerto de la Cruz

Having recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, RestaurantLa Bohème can rightly claim to be one of the best and mostpopular restaurants in Puerto de la Cruz.

Near the Plaza del Charco, you will find it on the first floorof Calle Blanco 5 and it is well worth seeking out for a reallyexcellent meal in comfortable surroundings.

The restaurant has been under the same management for25 years and has many loyal customers of all nationalities.They have always followed the same concept of presentinghigh-quality dishes with friendly service. La Bohème believesin moving with the times so there are always new additionsto the menu, naturally cooked with fresh ingredients daily.A firm favourite of many is the crispy roast duck with deliciousred cabbage, stuffed pear and various sauces. Do ask aboutthe festive menus as well as birthday, anniversary and jubileeparties.

Matul, Tasca-Restaurante,La Orotava

Opened some three months ago, Restaurante Matul is receivingglowing reviews for its value for money, fabulous dishes, excellentservice and decor. “A gastronomic reference for the north” isone diner’s accolade.

The restaurant prides itself on presenting creative cuisine,using fresh daily products, so you can enjoy meat dishes, fish orperhaps some tapas with friends. There is also a wide range ofwines.

You must also try the home-made desserts which are exquisite,with a great creative touch.

All this is presented in a friendly environment with attentiveowner, Victor and his team who make you feel totally at homeand ensure an experience to remember at a price you can afford.

Restaurante Matul is open every day, except Sunday, from1pm to 4.30pm and 7.30pm to 11pm. This beautiful restaurant islocated parallel to the motorway heading towards Santa Cruz atexit 33 to La Orotava.



Pets WorldDANGERS INVOLVED

TETHERING is not specifically illegal in itselfbut it’s not recommend as a viable way tokeep a horse.

The tethering of horses

Owners have a legal dutyof care to meet the welfareneeds of their horses at alltimes. You could be in breachof the law by tethering a horseif it means that the animal’sbasic needs are not beingmet.

If a horse needs to betethered in order to haveaccess to grazing, it must onlybe for short periods of time.For the remainder of the day,the horse should haveaccess to shelter and a spaceto run free and interact freelywith other horses.

If a horse is tethered to atree, it can become entangledand harm itself. If tethered onopen ground, it has noprotection from flies in thesummer. The lie of the landmust also be used wisely, sothat a hillside or dip in theground provides shelter. Inextreme weather conditions,a tethered horse must beprovided with a well-fittingrug which is checked dailyfor signs of wear to itself orthe horse.

GrazingAlthough a limited amount

of grazing may be accessibleto a horse which is tethered,this grazing will soon becropped to the floor or fouledwith droppings. A tetheredhorse must be moved to freshgrazing regularly - in fact, eventhis cannot mimic a horse’snatural behaviour of walkinglong distances while grazing.A horse should have access

to clean drinking water all thetime. A horse left unattendedmay kick over a bucket ofwater and then be left withoutwater for a long time.

CompanyTethered horses cannot

burden. Attacks on tetheredhorses by dogs and peopleare also, sadly, becomingcommon.

Natural behaviourWhen a horse is alarmed,

his instinct is to run away.When a tethered horse isfrightened, this natural flightinstinct cannot be fulfilled.This is a very basic denial of

safely enjoy the naturalcompany and interaction withother horses that they need,especially regarding physicalinteractions such as mutualgrooming.

Physical safetyThere are obvious dangers

of injur y involved withattaching a chain or rope to ahorse and leaving itconstrained. For example, thehorse is at risk of injury fromentanglement. Long termgrazing the same groundrepeatedly can lead to adangerously high worm

the freedom to behavenormally, and may increasethe horse’s fear. A tetheredhorse will also be unable toroll freely and safely in achosen spot.

Tethering compromises ahorse’s well being in manyways. A tethered horserequires high levels ofmonitoring, proper tetheringequipment, feed, water anda degree of freedom providedregularly. It is not a low costor low maintenance way ofkeeping a horse and is NOTconsidered to be goodpractice.

Keeping cats out of agardenPROBLEMS can arise when cats are attracted

to neighbours’ gardens. However, it is important to remember that cats are free to roam

and are protected by law. It is an offence to steal acat or cause one unnecessary pain or suffering. Itis also an offence to put down snares, poison orunlicensed deterrents. In attempting to prevent catsfrom entering a garden, any deterrent methods youuse should be non-harmful.

The use of prickly plants and ground cover plants canhide the bare soil that is so attractive to cats. Wateringflowerbeds as cats don’t like walking over damp earth.

Use a low-pressure water spray; however it is important toensure that this does not cause distress to the cat or lead to pain,injury or suffering. The water jet must never be directed straightat a cat and care must be taken when using a spray not to causea cat to injure itself or bolt into a dangerous situation, for example,into the path of traffic or a dog.

Chicken wire can be used to protect specific areas and ispreferable to netting which wild animals can become caught in.

There are a variety of approved chemical repellent productson the market but it is important to ensure a product is licensedand the instructions are read carefully. The chemical should beapproved by the Chemicals Regulation Directorate under theControl of Pesticides Regulations for the particular animal andsituation in question.

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GOING out for a walk should be a pleasantexperience but there are times when youmight encounter a stray dog or one off its

lead.

A waggy tail isn’talways friendly!

Many dogs will be friendlytowards unfamiliar peopleand will not show any signsof aggression whenapproached but there may besome who will behaveaggressively if someonecomes too close.

Dogs are aggressive inresponse to unfolding eventsand it always depends onwhat they believe ishappening to them. Whendogs use aggression, it isalmost invariably becausethey think that they are undersome form of threat. Forexample, the threat could beto their personal safety, totake away something (orsomeone) they value highlyor they may feel theirterritory is threatened.

The RSPCA has offered thefollowing help to recognisethe signs of aggression andto give some advice on howto behave around dogs thatshow these behaviours,helping you to make themfeel less threatened and toreduce the chance ofaggression towards you.

HOW CAN IASSESS IF A DOGIS SHOWINGSIGNS OFAGGRESSION?

Pay close attention to the

dog’s body language. Ingeneral, you can work out ifa dog is l ikely to beaggressive by paying closeattention to his/her bodylanguage. In circumstanceswhere a dog might thinkthere is a threat, there willusually be warning signs.

Dogs will of ten tr y toremove themselves from thesituation or otherwise avoid athreat in some way beforeresorting to attack. A slightstiffening of posture may bethe first or only clue but thereare a number of other signs towatch out for.

Most dogs will give plentyof warning that they may begoing to bite. They may give“leave me alone” signals likelicking their lips, yawning,turning their head or trying towalk away; they may be evenmore obvious with signalssuch as raising the hair on theirneck and back, growling,snarling, showing their teethand barking.

You may need to move,either behind something or toget away from the dog. If thedog does not press home anattack, walk slowlybackwards or sideways. Donot let the dog get roundbehind you; keep movinggently so that you continue topresent a half side/front viewof your body.

Do not make suddenmovements or run, just walkslowly away from the dog. He/she is not likely to pursue youvery far. Keep walking andtalking up to the point at whichthe dog loses interest in you.

WHAT SHOULD IDO IF A DOGATTACKS?

Fend the dog off rather than

try to fight back. Try to holdsomething like a briefcase,bag or coat between you andthe dog. Very few dogs presshome a serious attack andafter a snap-bite they will becontent that you are leaving.Do not scream or yell.

I f you know there arepeople within hearingdistance, call to them forhelp. Stay on your feet and donot corner yourself.

Continue to walk slowlyaway, backwards orsideways, looking down andsideways. Talk to the dogreassuringly, fending off ifnecessar y and aiming toplace solid objects betweenyou as you leave.

Do not try to shoo away, hitor kick the dog as you will beincreasing the threat and willincrease the possibility of afull attack. Talk to the dogcalmly in a pleasant tone ofvoice. Tell the dog you meanhim/her no harm and that youare leaving. If you arecycling, dismount and placethe bike between you and thedog. This allows you to slowlywheel it far enough away toremount. Do not tr y tooutpace the dog as this mayencourage him/her to chaseyou.

Get something as solid aspossible between you and thedog. If you are deliveringsomething to the house itmay be a parcel, a bag oryour coat. If you are in thestreet or park it may be abench, a lamp post or litterbin.

Do not make the mistakeof thinking that a wagging tailmeans they are friendly. Awagging tail can mean lotsof things, including “I amabout to bite”! The mostobvious signal will be a snapat the air in front of you, whichis not a ‘miss’ but a warningthat the next one will makecontact.

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Warm Crusty BreadHome Made Smoked Salmon Pate with a Touch of

Mint Served with Crispy Toasts

Traditional Beef Wellington (served med - wd) with aFruity Raspberry Sauce served with Roast

Potatoes and Seasonal VegetablesKing Prawns in a Champagne, Lemon and SpinachCream Accompanied by a Vegetable and Black

Truffle Cous CousMedallions of Slow Cooked Roast Lamb Served

Sebastian Style with Wild Mushrooms, Roast RedPeppers, Rosemary and Rioja Wine served with Roast

Potatoes and Seasonal Vegetables

Festive Cranberry Creme BruleePear Poached in Red Wine and Christmas Spices with

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at your local A.C.Woodenspoons at

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custard or ice creamAvailable 5:00–10:00pm, every day 1st to 22nd Dec.

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Christmas Day 2:30pm to 2:00am, serving a 3 coursemeal 2:30-5:30pm for 25.00€


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new potatoes & salad25.00€ per person – min. 4 people.


Fairways Club Resort | Amarilla Golf,San Miguel de Abona

Tipsy Terrace at Los Gigantes is a restaurant that hasto be seen to be believed throughout the year but forthe whole month of December something extraordinaryhappens.

The restaurant and terrace is magically transformedinto Tipsy Wonderland with the most beautiful tree, theinfamous poinsettia fountain filled with twinkling lightsand a 15ft Father Christmas suspended from a ceilingfull of ice and glistening snowflakes. Proof is in theChristmas Pudding as Christmas Day and New Year’sEve have been fully booked for months; some guestsreturning for their for their sixth year.

That still leaves plenty of days and nights for you tovisit, however, and get into that festive spirit. With livemusic every evening that Tipsy Terrace is open and withTeam Tipsy’s ability to make every special occasion atruly personal one, Tipsy Terrace bar and bistro is theplace to be!

Calle Hibisco 4, Los GigantesTel.: 922 868 432

www.tipsyterrace.net

Tipsy Wonderland

StyleIT’S hard to believe that it’s nearly Christmas, especially when you live in the sun and the temperature is still in the 70s! But November is nearly here and that

means countdown to the festive season, whether you celebrate on December 25th or Spanish-style on January 5th – or both in many cases. With just six weeks to go, if you want to eat out on Christmas Day, you really should be booking up now or you will miss out. Don’t just think about it, pick up the phone and do it. If not, you will find

restaurants booked up and will be disappointed.Many people who enjoy Christmas in the sunshine in Tenerife for the first time will always remember this very different experience. Eating turkey and mince pies under a sun umbrella is certainly

a delight!Over the issues before now and Christmas, we will be giving you ideas of where to celebrate, not just for Christmas Day or New Year if places are still available but for any festive treat or a party out

with colleagues or friends or family.It’s said that more and more people are choosing to eat out rather than at home because it’s lovely to be served for a change, especially for the person who usually does the cooking. And just think

about all that washing up saved!

Yes, it’s nearly Christmas!

HEALTHMATTERS


VOMITING BUG

NOROVIRUS, sometimes known as the wintervomiting bug, is the most common stomachbug in the UK, affecting people of all ages.

The virus, which is highly contagious, causes vomitingand diarrhoea. As there is no specific cure, you have to let itrun its course but it should not last more than a couple ofdays. Unfortunately, you can get it more than once.

The period from when you are infected to when you startto show symptoms (known as the incubation period) usuallylasts 12-48 hours. During this time, you may be infectious toother people.

Having norovirus can be an unpleasant experience but it’snot generally dangerous and most people make a fullrecovery within a couple of days, without having to see adoctor.

Between 600,000 and one million people in the UK catchnorovirus every year. You may have heard of it as the “wintervomiting bug” because the illness is more common in winter.However, the virus can be caught at any time of the year.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

If you have norovirus, the following steps should help easeyour symptoms:

Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration. Take paracetamolfor any fever or aches and pains. If you feel like eating, eat foodsthat are easy to digest. Stay at home and don’t go to the doctor,because norovirus is contagious and there is nothing the doctorcan do while you have it. However, contact your GP to seekadvice if your symptoms last longer than a few days or if youalready have a serious illness.

Extra care should be taken to prevent babies and small childrenwho are vomiting or have diarrhoea from dehydrating, by givingthem plenty of fluids. Babies and young children can still drinkmilk.

Facing up tonorovirus VEGETARIANS and vegans don’t eat any meat,

poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea(such as crab or lobster) or animal by-prod-

ucts (such as gelatine).

What is a vegetarian?

Their diet consists of grains,pulses, nuts, seeds, fruit andvegetables, dairy productsand eggs. Vegetarians whoalso don’t eat eggs and dairyproducts are called vegans.

There are three main typesof vegetarian:

Lacto-ovo-vegetarians eatboth dairy products and eggs.This is the most common typeof vegetarian diet.

Lacto-vegetarians eat dairyproducts but not eggs.

Vegans do not eat dairyproducts, eggs or any otheranimal product.

At what age is it safeto become a vegetarianor vegan?

As long as they get all thenutrients they need, childrencan be brought up healthily ona vegetarian or vegan diet.Children need plenty ofenergy to help them grow anddevelop.

Children also need proteinand iron to grow anddevelop. Good sources ofprotein and iron forvegetarians are eggs, nuts(don’t give whole nuts tochildren under five as theycould choke), pulses, such asbeans, lentils and peas andfoods made from pulses, such

as tofu, hummus and soyamince.

It’s also important thatchildren get enough vitaminB12 and vitamin D.

Vitamin drops areimportant for vegetarian andvegan children between sixmonths and five years old. Ifyour child is older than this,speak to your GP or adietician to see whethervitamin drops should beincluded in their diet.

All children aged sixmonths to five years old areadvised to take vitamin Dsupplements, unless theydrink more than 500ml (abouta pint) of infant formula a day.

Can babies and chil-dren eat a vegetariandiet?

If you’re bringing up yourchild on a diet without meat(vegetarian) or without anyfood from animals (vegan),they will need two or threeportions of vegetable proteinor nuts every day to give themenough protein and iron.

Don’t give whole nuts tochildren under five as theycould choke. Grind the nutsfinely or use a smooth nutbutter. You’ll also need tomake sure they get enough

calcium, vitamin B12 andvitamin D. Vitamin drops areespecially important forvegetarian and veganchildren between six monthsand five years old.

Can babies and chil-dren have a vegan diet?

If you’re breastfeedingand you’re on a vegan diet,it’s especially important foryou to take a vi tamin Dsupplement. You may alsoneed extra vitamin B12.

Take care when feedingchildren on a vegan diet.Young children need a goodvariety of foods to provideenergy and vitamins theyneed for growth.

A vegan diet can be bulkyand high in fibre. This canmean that children get fullup before they ’ve eatenenough calories. Because ofthis, they may need extrasupplements. Ask a dietitianor doctor for advice beforeyou start introducing yourchild to solids.

Is it safe to be a vege-tarian or vegan duringpregnancy?

A varied and balancedvegetarian or vegan diet canprovide enough nutrients foryou and your baby duringpregnancy. However, youmight find it hard to getenough iron, vitamin D andvitamin B12. Talk to yourdoctor or midwife abouthow to get enough of theseimportant nutrients. Readmore about having a healthydiet during pregnancy. Allpregnant and breastfeedingwomen, regardless of theirdiet, are advised to take avitamin D supplement.

Do vegetarians andvegans need vitaminsupplements?

With good planning andan understanding of whatmakes up a healthybalanced vegetarian andvegan diet, you can get allthe nutr ients your bodyneeds to be healthy withoutthe need for supplements.

GETTING STARTED

STRENGTH and flexibility exercises will helpyou increase muscle strength, maintain bonedensity, improve balance and reduce joint

pain.A strength exercise is any activity that makes your muscles

work harder than usual. This increases your muscles’ strength,size, power and endurance. The activities involve using yourbody weight or working against a resistance.

Examples of muscle-strengthening activities include liftingweights, working with resistance bands,heavy gardening, suchas digging and shovelling, climbing stairs, hill walking, cycling,dance,push-ups, sit-ups and squats and yoga.

What exercises are good for preventing falls?Exercises that improve leg strength, balance and co-ordination

can help people maintain and improve their muscle mass andavoid falls as they get older.

You could try ta chi, yoga, dance, walking up stairs, hiking or

The benefits of strength exercises

lifting weights.

How can I tell if I’m doing enough?For an activity to be muscle-strengthening, it needs to work

your muscles to the point where you may need a short restbefore continuing. For example, if you’re lifting weights, youwould have to put the weight down after doing a number of liftsbefore carrying on.

What are flexibility exercises?Flexibility exercises are activities that improve the ability of a

joint to maintain the movement necessary for carrying out dailytasks and physical activity.

What are the health benefits of strength and flexibilityactivities?

There is strong evidence of the health benefits of muscle-strengthening activities. These include maintaining the ability toperform everyday tasks and the reduction in bone and muscleloss associated with ageing. There is also a reduction in thenumber of falls.

Unlike aerobic and strength exercises, the specific healthbenefits of flexibility activities are unclear. However, healthprofessionals believe that improving your flexibility can improveyour posture, reduce aches and pains and lower your risk ofinjury. Good flexibility can also help you to continue carrying outeveryday tasks.

How often should I do strength and flexibility exercises?It’s a good idea to do muscle-strengthening activities that work

all the major muscle groups (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest,shoulders and arms) on two or more days a week. No specificamount of time is recommended but a typical training sessioncould take less than 20 minutes.

Exercises should be performed to the point at which it wouldbe difficult to do another repetition without help. A repetition isone complete movement of an activity, like lifting a weight ordoing one push-up or one sit-up. Try to do 8 to 12 repetitions foreach activity, which counts as one set. Try to do at least two setsof muscle-strengthening activities, but to gain even more benefits,do three sets. Remember to start gradually and build up over aperiod of weeks.

There are no specific recommendations for how much timeyou should spend on flexibility exercises.


43HEALTHMATTERS

SUDDEN pain in one of the knees is usuallythe result of overusing the knee or suddenlyinjuring it. In many cases, you don’t need to

see your GP.The knee joint is particularly vulnerable to damage and

pain because it takes the full weight of your body and anyextra force when you run or jump. This is why you are moresusceptible to knee pain if you are overweight.

Simple strainIf you think your pain is the result of having done more activity

than you’re used to, you’ve probably just strained the knee. Thismeans that the knee tissues have stretched but are not permanentlydamaged. You should care for your knee at home and the painshould eventually go away.

You can prevent future knee pain by always warming up beforeexercising and cooling down afterwards, increasing your activitylevels slowly over time and replacing your sports shoes whennecessary.

You can also try low-impact exercises, such as swimming, toimprove your health and fitness without harming your knee joint.

Anterior knee pain syndromeKnee pain felt at the front of the knee, around the kneecap, is

called anterior knee pain syndrome. The cause is not understoodbut it is usually made worse by sitting for prolonged periods or byclimbing stairs.

You can treat this yourself with anti-inflammatories, an icepackand rest and you should also do strengthening exercises for themuscles in front of your thigh.

Damage to the menisciSitting between the upper and lower leg bones at the knee

joint are rubbery pads of tissue called menisci. These cushionthe bones, acting as shock absorbers.

The menisci can become worn as you get older and iscommonly the reason for knee pain in middle-aged people.

A meniscus can also be torn after suddenly twisting the kneejoint, resulting in pain, swelling and locking of the knee. Thesesymptoms may settle down without treatment, although anoperation is sometimes needed to repair the torn pad of tissue.

OsteoarthritisIn older people, repeated attacks of knee pain are likely to be

a sudden worsening of osteoarthritis, the most common type ofarthritis in the UK. Osteoarthritis causes damage to the articularcartilage (protective surface of the knee bone) and mild swellingof the tissues in and around the joints.

A painful fluid-filled swelling may develop at the back of theknee as a result of osteoarthritis – this is known as a Baker’s cyst,or popliteal cyst.

Osteoarthritis can sometimes affect younger people, especiallythose who are overweight.

You should see your GP if you think the cause of your knee painis osteoarthritis.

LESS COMMON CAUSES OF KNEEPAIN

Tendonitis

Why is my knee hurting?Overusing or injuring the tendon that connects the kneecap

to the shin bone can lead to patellar tendonitis (inflammation ofthe tendon). This condition is sometimes called “jumper’s knee”,as it can be brought on by jumping activities such as basketballor volleyball. The area may be swollen, red and warm.

You can care for your knee at home as you would with asimple sprain.

Housemaid’s kneeRepetitive movement of the knee or kneeling for long periods

can cause a build-up of fluid over the knee joint, known as bursitisor “housemaid’s knee”.

Housemaid’s knee tends to affect people with certain jobsthat involve kneeling (such as carpet layers), or sports players(such as footballers).

Torn ligament or tendonKnee pain may be caused by torn ligaments or tendons.

Ligaments are tough bands of tissue that connect the bones at theknee joint; tendons connect the muscles to the bone. You cantear these tissues during running sports such as rugby or football.

Injured tendons or knee ligaments at the side of the knee maycause pain even when the knee is at rest, which may get worsewhen you bend the knee or put weight on it. There may also bewarmth and swelling around the knee.

If you feel that your knee is also unstable or keeps ‘giving way’,you may have torn the anterior cruciate ligament (one of themain knee ligaments). This probably resulted from a suddenchange in direction or a twisting movement, and you may haveheard a pop when it happened. You should see your GP if thishappens, and you may be referred to an orthopaedic specialistfor advice and treatment.

Bleeding into the jointAn injury that causes significant damage to the knee joint may

cause bleeding into the joint spaces, known as haemarthrosis.This happens because the main ligaments in the knee containblood vessels.

Signs of haemarthrosis are swelling of the knee, warmth,stiffness and bruising. You should go to hospital immediately tohave your knee treated if you have a very swollen knee.

Osgood-Schlatter’s diseaseSwelling and tenderness over the bony bump just below the

kneecap is known as Osgood-Schlatter’s disease. This is acommon cause of knee pain and swelling in teenagers,particularly teenage boys who sprain or overuse their thighmuscles when playing football or other sports.

Gout and pseudogoutIf the knee joint is also hot and red, the cause is likely to be

gout or pseudogout, which are also types of arthritis.Gout is caused by a build-up of uric acid in the body. Uric acid

is a waste product that is produced during the process ofmetabolism (when the body breaks down food to use as energy).Usually, uric acid is excreted by the kidneys.

People whose kidneys do not excrete uric acid properly, orthose who produce too much, can have high levels of uric acid in

their blood. If the level becomes very high, crystals form in thejoints. The crystals cause the joints to become inflamed andpainful.

Gout will cause severe pain in the knee, limit movement ofthe joint and may cause a slight fever.

Usually, gout affects the joint of the big toe first, before itaffects the knee joint or any other joint.

Pseudogout is a similar condition to gout in that crystals ofcalcium are deposited in and around the joint. But unlike gout,pseudogout can affect the knee joint first.

You should see your GP if you think the cause of your kneepain is gout or pseudogout.

When to see your GPYou should see your GP if you cannot put weight on your knee

at all, you have severe pain even when you’re not putting weighton it, your knee locks or painfully clicks (painless clicking isOK),your knee keeps giving way, it looks deformed, you havefever, redness or heat around the knee, or it is very swollen, youhave pain, swelling, numbness or tingling of the calf beneathyour affected knee or the pain is still severe after three days ofcaring for your knee at home.

COMMON CAUSES

HOLD an ice pack (try frozen peas wrappedin a tea towel) to the arm for 15 to 20minutes every few hours for the first

couple of days.Take over-the-counter painkillers such as ibuprofen to relieve

the pain.Keep your arm raised for as long as possible, for example

by resting it on cushions. This will help reduce the swellingand pain.

Rest the arm and do not use it.

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Managing armpain



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Health card fiasco

Dear EditorHas anyone else had a delay inreceiving their Spanish HealthCard?I applied for mine six monthsago and although I am nowproperly signed on and have awhite slip of paper to prove it,the laminated card has yet toarrive in the post. I have beentold it could take two years! Isthat right?It’s ironic really, isn’t it? TheSpanish Government tightens up

the rules and requireseveryone to sign on to thePadrón and abide by the rules(ie. get a job to get healthcover!) and implements it allvery quickly. Strange how theauthorities can act quicklywhen they want to but viceversa, it takes ages to respondto the person who does whatthey are required to. Notparticularly encouraging is it?Has any other readerencountered the same delay?

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Non Gluten meals

We are coming to Puerto forquite a while every year forseveral weeks, and we havenow rented a very niceApartemento. This makes iteasy to come even more often.We love the town, the people,and all it offers to us. What adelight to come back and goto the Market for the firstshopping, etc. Plus of courseto get the fantastic TenerifeNews. Thank you.!!Now your Article: Santa Cruz“sin gluten” has made mewonder if one could extendthis to Puerto as well.I am always wary to go out,will I find something I can eat.There is ever so often aRestaurant that willserve “gluten free”, thank youeveryone who does. But on thewhole it is quite rare.Is there any hope, you think?Best wishes

Hannah Duquesne

An evening celebrating the lifeof Elaine Morgan

A plea from Palm MarDear EditorReferring to your double page article on Palm Mar (October 4th-17th edition).Palm Mar is indeed a lovely place to live, close to the sea and the nature reserve. However, there is a big problem in Palm Marwhich seems to be getting worse. Dog mess! It’s everywhere. All over the roads, the pavements, the borders and any green areas.Irresponsible dog owners think it’s okay to let their dogs mess wherever they like and not clean up after them!You cannot walk around without looking down in case you tread in it!Arona Council or someone must take control of this problem. On the spot fines would help with a dog warden monitoring thesituation.If this is allowed to continue, then Palm Mar will indeed become an undesirable place to live and visit. And yes, I am a dog ownerand have always picked up our dog’s mess.Just do it for your dog, yourself and the community!

M Anderson, Palm Mar

A founder member of the Swallows mainly and of late, known for herwork and enthusiasm with the successful Art Group, Elaine previouslyorganised light entertainment/musical hall events, bowling, walks, cof-fee mornings, Christmas morning swims with snacks on the Los Cristianosbeach, dances at the Guaracumbo and attention to the care of the sickand infirmed within the English and Spanish community , plus lots ofmeals out!

Sadly Elaine died on 9th July in Selsey and there was a private cremation service in Chichesterfollowed by a Memorial Service and internment of the Ashes on 15th August in southGloucestershire.

A meal at KIKI RIKI in the APOLO CENTRE, LOS CRISTIANOS has been booked for FRIDAY15th NOVEMBER 7.30pm to enable Swallows and friends get together to eat and chat aboutElaine. Ted is planning to attend. It will be an informal evening but brought to a close with a toastand a brief word about our dear friend.

Kiki Riki specialises in chicken dishes with wonderful sauces. It is reasonably priced andgood portions; a quarter of a chicken is a good guide to quantity. Quality is assured!

It would be super if you were able to join us.

R.S.V.P. Ann on 648.770.265 or [email protected]

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THERE are a few places available for the Agatha Christie talk on 7th November - pleasehurry to make your reservation if you would like to attend.The Library Ladies lunch at the Petit Los Angeles Restaurant is now fully booked. We

hope to arrange another in the New Year.Our pre-Christmas lunch (a buffet with wine) is to be held at the Masaru Aparthotel in La Paz onTuesday 10th December. Tickets are now being sold for 14 euros, and non-members are welcome.Please support us by buying tickets for our grand Christmas Raffle which will be drawn on Saturday14th December at the Library at noon.Hara’s Circle Dances have now re-.commenced, and are being held at the library on Wednesdaysfrom 4 to 5.30 p.m. All are welcome . See the library notice board for details.Members - please pass by the treasurer’s desk to renew your subscriptions which remain unchangedat 30 euros for a single membership.Those who would like to join our happy band will be greatly welcomed, and Swallows, don’t forgetthat temporary memberships are available. Ask in the library for details.The following books are Richard and Judy recommendations:

was convicted and imprisoned forthe murder of his childhood friendLaura and his beautiful girlfriendStefanie - otherwise known asSnow White.

After serving his sentence,Tobias returns home. His presencein the little German village stirsup the events of the past. Eventsthat the locals would prefer toremain hidden. Detective InspectorPia Kirchhoff and DS OliverBodenstein are tasked withmonitoring the tense atmospherein the tight-knit community. As thevillage inhabitants close ranks itbecomes apparent that thedisappearance of Snow White andher friend was far more complexthan imagined. Then history startsto repeat itself in a disatrousmanner when another pretty girlgoes missing.

The Husband’s Secretby Liane Moriarty

Mother of three and wife ofJohn-Paul, Cecilia discovers an oldenvelope in the attic. Written in herhusband’s hand, it says : to beopened only in the event of mydeath.

Curious, she opens it - and timestops.

John-Paul’s letter confesses to aterrible mistake which, if revealed,woud wreck their family as well asthe lives of other.

Cecilia wants to do the rightthing, but for who? If she protectsher family by staying silent, the truthwill worm through her heart. But if

she reveals her husband’s secret,she will hurt those she loves most...

The Twins by SaskiaSarginson

Isolte and Viola are twins.Inseparable as children, they havegrown into very different adults:Isolte, a successful features writerfor a fashion magazine; and Viola,desperately unhappy andstruggling with a lifelong eatingdisorder.

What happened all those yearsago to set the twins on suchdifferent paths to adulthood? Asboth women start to unravel theescalating tragedies of a half-remembered summer, terrifyingsecrets from the past comerushing back - and threaten tooverwhelm their adult lives....

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

DS3 Cabrio isDrop Top winner

WE might not get many opportunities toenjoy open-air driving in the UK but thatdoesn’t prevent drop-top models being

highly popular – even in Scotland.The past summer was

actually quite dry and cabrioletowners took full advantage.

There is much competitionin this sector and the one thatstood out as far as theAssociation of Scottish MotoringWriters’ members wereconcerned was a recent arrival.

The Citroen DS3 Cabriodrove off with the Drop Top

honour at the recent ScottishCar of the Year awards.

I have to put my hand up andsay this wasn’t the car that gotmy vote – it went to the AudiRS5 Cabriolet.

But that’s not to say I’m notan admirer of Citroen’s little soft-top – I enjoyed some time withthe DS3 Cabrio.

This newcomer looks prettychic and its charms will mostdefinitely appeal to femaledrivers.

It comes in three signaturetrim levels – Dsign, DStyle and

DSport – a choice of threepetrol and one dieselengines, with prices startingat £15,045.

The test car was the top-of-the-range DSport and itwas a little cracker.

This model is powered bya punchy 153bhp 1.6-litreturbo-charged petrol enginethat worked well through the

six-speed manual trans-mission.

Handling and roadholding was pretty good andit proved quiet enough atspeed thanks to the well-insulated soft top.

It will nip swiftly off theblocks with a zero to 62mphtime of 8.2 seconds and iscapable of 132mph.

The interior is impressive,even more so with theaddition of leather on frontand rear seats, which wasan £850 option on this model.

It’s also the only model in itsclass to offer three rear seats butI reckon more than two adultswould be cramped in that spaceand legroom wasn’t great either.

The boot space, at 245 litres,is better than others.

The tailgate opens in anupward circular motion whichmeans it can be opened whenparked next to obstructions.

The downside of this though,because it doesn’t come fullyup, means you have to be a bitof a contortionist when loadingthe boot, crouching down to getitems in and out – not ideal foreven your daily shopping trips.

Judging the weather can bea problem for cabrio driverswhen you set off on trips – beltingdown the motorway topless at70mph when the cloudssuddenly open and you can’tclose the roof at speeds of lessthan 20mph or so.

Well Citroen has come upwith the answer to this as theircanvas roof can by closed atspeeds of up to 75mph – in just16 seconds.

There are three settings forthe fold-back - intermediate,

horizontal and total.The test car’s price without

options is £19,680 - a good bitcheaper than the RS5 Cabriolet’s£67,500 – so it is certainly agood bit more affordable.

Economy figures are good aswell, achieving 35mpg urban,59mpg extra urban and 48mphcombined.

The DS3 range has provedpopular for Citroen since itslaunch three years ago andmotorists can now takeadvantage of open-air drivingwith this stylish new cabriolet.

MOST people will know that when buying a car in Spainwhether it is privately or from a dealer or garage then taxhas to be paid to the Tax Office (Hacienda).

Until fairly recently the amount of tax due was 4% of the official value but thathas now changed to 5.5% although for cars over 10 years old the rules changedon 01/07/2012. If the car is over ten years old, at the date of the transfer, thenthere are fixed amounts of tax payable. This is based on the engine size.

For engine sizes up to 1000cc tax due 40€, 1001-1500cc tax due 70€ and from1501-2000cc the tax is 115€. If the engine size is larger, then the calculationreverts to the normal rules or if the car is not classed as a turismo.

The official valuation of vehicles, including boats and planes, is set by Haciendaand more often than not has no bearing or relevance to what you may be payingfor the car. In order to obtain an accurate valuation you will need a fair amount ofinformation, most of which can be found on the car´s Ficha Técnica and Permisode circulación. Firstly you will need the make and model, but remember thatthere could, for example, be 20 models of a Renault Clio so if the Ficha Técnicaor a copy is held a more accurate valuation can be obtained. You will need toknow the date of fabrication (which may not be the same as the date of firstregistration), the date of first registration, found at item I on the Permiso decirculación and also the Potencia fiscal/real found on the Ficha Técnica on theright hand side about half way down. An example of this is 11,63/77 and someinsurance companies may also ask for this information when giving a quote.

Once you have all this information you can obtain the valuation from Haciendaeither by phone, in person or online, most companies that deal with car transferswill be able to obtain this for you. If for example the valuation is 5250€ then the5.5% tax payable would be 288,75€. This amount would be payable on a modelo620 at any bank of your choice, which has been correctly completed. As can beseen the costs can increase your payment substantially.

The costs of a transfer, including this tax are generally agreed between partieswhen negotiating a sale/purchase as to who will pay, although this is not alwaysthe case and often the buyer will end up with additional cost they may not haveanticipated.

If you require any further information or assistance in such cases please do nothesitate to contact me [email protected] or 922783828 or

629048529.

Hacienda valuations of cars

Q. I drove the wife’s car today for the first time in many months andnoticed a characteristic smell upon stopping that suggesting it was run-ning hot. There are no other indications so far of a problem but it isoverdue for a service. According to the ECU the coolant temperature was106C. If these engines run hot as I get the impression that they weredesigned to do then I guess this isn’t a problem. So first question to askis should a 1.8 Zetec Petrol (2002) be running at 106C after 30 minutes ofdriving? Second question is as the service is overdue what cooling systemparts should we replace after 100,000 kilometres? I don’t intend to re-place the thermostat or its housing as both appear to be working or theradiator as there are no signs of leaking but do plan to flush it as part ofthe service and check condition of pipes. Coincidence I would hope butthe air conditioning appears to also have failed. I’m not sure how thecompressor is powered but am aware that it’s been near the end of itslife.

A. If it’s never had its coolant changed in 11 years then it is likely there is corrosionin the cooling system. A partial blockage somewhere in the system would give thesymptoms you describe. Not sure but I think these cars have a plastic impellor in thewater pump. If so, these are prone to corrosion wearing the vanes and rendering thepump useless eventually as a result of the abrasive effect of the corrosion particles. Iwould inspect the pump then give it a thorough flush through with a garden hose thenflush the block, heater and rad separately. Flush again with the hose and then refillwith 35 to 50% antifreeze.

Q. I have a year 2000 fiesta 1.25 zetec with 123000 kms on the clock.It’s always used oil and has been holding back when you put your footdown. About a month ago I did a long journey at motorway speeds.The day after on start-up it kicked a cloud of smoke out of the exhaustbut has never done it since, now the car smokes bad after a long pe-riod on engine overrun intermittently and when you put your foot downit now holds back with a ‘pinking’ sound and clouds of smoke con-stantly. Do you have ideas whether this fault is something like valvestem seals, or am I just looking at a tired engine? It’s difficult to tellcolour of smoke though rear view mirror but I’m assuming this is wherethe oil is going.

A. It sounds like a tired engine my opinion as it is smoking whilst driving, valvestems seals only smoke on start up.

Please email your questions to [email protected]

By Graham Cathcart

SPORTSNEWS


ANNUAL GALA

ARONA has started to make plans forits 18th Sports Gala to recognise out standing performances.

The popular event will take place in the AuditorioInfanta Leonor in Los Cristianos on November 23rd at7pm.

Sports clubs are currently being approached abouttheir highlights, achievements and individual stars.

The gala is a sports party for all the family with manyawards to be presented. There will also be anInternational Award which in the last gala, went toParalympic swimmer, Michelle Alonso Morales.

Arona to honour sportingstars

THE ScallyWaggsGolf Society heldtheir annual lun-

ch and presentation oftrophies at La Tas-quitaRestaurante in Adeje.

La Tasquita has been theclub’s main sponsors for manyyears. After lunch, CaptainFrank Moss did the presen-tation of trophies.

First place, Graeme Barr.Second, Darren Kemp. Third,Sean Bible. A special thank-you was given to Damienand his staff for a lovelylunch.

Annual lunch forScallyWaggs

TROPHY CEREMONY

GRASSROOTS SOCCER

GRASSROOTS football is alive and kicking in Tegueste. Almost 350 young people have enrolled for the coming season in six categories. The official presentation of the different teams which make up the Tegueste Grassroots Football Club

was made at Los Laureles by the president, Chema López. There were hundreds of people at the ceremony,including the Mayor, José Manuel Molina.

There are 16 teams in all (2 juveniles, 3 cadetes, 3 infantiles, 4 alevines, 3 benjamines and 3 pre-benjamines).

Teams unveiled for newseason

The Bowling Game

IN my last article, I discussed the “image” of bowls or tobe more accurate the “misconstrued image” of bowls. AsI stated, it is my intention through this column to rectify

that image in the coming months.However, this edition I thought I would let you know just how successful

the bowlers on our small island of Tenerife have become and how it all cameabout.

Around 11 years ago, a bowling green, then called Winter Gardens bowling,opened. It started with some small tournaments and over the following threemonths or so, a nucleus of bowlers formed and they started Teide BowlingClub. Some of those initial players had played bowls in the UK but many morehad never played bowls before.

Over the years, the club grew and became stronger and stronger.Throughout the years, the growing membership came from people who cometo Tenerife for the autumn/winter, established residents of Tenerife and newarrivals who had decided to retire in Tenerife. Again, some were establishedbowlers but equally some were complete beginners. The beginners weresupported and developed by other members of the club and by the coachingprogramme that has been developed over the years by qualified coaches.

In 2009, Winter Gardens Bowling was “bought” by father and daughter,Norman Gardner and Julie Lincoln, who have built upon what Winter Gardenshad developed and turned it into a truly international-class bowling complex,adding to and improving the bowling green itself and developing a verypopular a la carte restaurant (Rendezvous Restaurant) and bar/bistro(Rendezvous Bar and Bistro).

Aside from “structural improvements”, working with Teide Bowling Club,Tenerife Green Bowls have developed and improved the coaching side ofthings, improved the playing surface, organised and developed more diversebowling activities to offer everyone one from the total beginner to the well-established bowler.

Over the years, in my small part, I have got a big kick out of helping playersdevelop, particularly those who started out as complete beginners and arenow established bowlers themselves. Until last year (May 2012) all thesuccess, however, had been, in the main, restricted locally. In May 2012,however, that began to change - BIG TIME!

That year, four players, long established players and members of TeideB.C. entered and played in the Spanish National Championships. It was thefirst time ever that anyone from Teide B.C. had ever played in the Nationals.At the first attempt, Bob Booton got to the semi finals of the Singles, Bob andmyself go to the Quarter Finals of the Quarter Finals of the Pairs, RobertCathcart and Norman Gardner got to the last 16 of the pairs. All four got to thequarter finals of the rinks and Robert, Norman and myself got to the quarterfinal of the triples. At a first attempt, that was not bad going in any one’s book.On a personal level, I went to the Championships hoping to win something butmy real wish was “to get noticed” by the Spanish National team. I succeededin that when I was invited for a trial for the National team.

As a coach and as match secretary of Teide B.C. all of the above was greatand I believed we as a club could do even better. My beliefs were to beeclipsed.

Next time I will tell you just how much they were eclipsed and how a fewbowlers from our wee island in the Atlantic achieved so much more thanthey themselves could have believed possible.

Small island butsuccessful players

BADMINTON, volleyball, taekwondo and soc-cer are all on the agenda, thanks to the Mu-nicipal Sports Schools and CD Zamorano

Esperanza. The courses began officially on Octo-ber 1st but enrolments can be taken until all theplaces are filled up, 100 in all per sport.

Getting sporty in El RosarioYoungsters living in El Rosario are being invited to getsporty

Badminton is held in El Chorrillo sportshall on a Monday, Wednesday and Fridayfrom 6.30pm to 8pm. The same venue hostsvolleyball from Monday to Friday 4pm to6.30pm with each day of the weekcorresponding to the different age groupssuch as Prebenjamín, Benjamín, Alevín,Infantil, etc.

Taekwondo takes place in CEIP LeoncioRodríguez in La Esperanza on Tuesdays andFridays from 5.30pm to 7pm.

Parents interested in enroll ing theirchildren can do so at the various municipalsports schools. Classes are taught byprofessionals.

CD Zamorano Esperanza holds its footballtraining at 5.30pm at the Maximino Bacalladofootball campus in different categories. Inthis case, El Rosario council co-operates withthe club regarding maintenance andfacilities.


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TOURNAMENT SUCCESS

EIGHT clubs took part in the XXVIII La LagunaTaekwondo Kiorugui tournament held in thePablos Abril pavilion.

Taekwondohelps worthycause

Club Escuela La Lagunatook the trophy with 82 points,with Tagoror second andSamguk third with 64 and 61points respectively.

They were joined by Jansu,Mencey, Samguk, Taebek andTaekion (Gran Canaria),making 150 participants in all.

Over the four hours of thecompetition, there were 95matches and it proved to be agreat day for players and

spectators alike.The tournament was

supported by a number ofcompanies, including Grau-vell, Coca Cola, Guzmán Sport,Urbandivers, Coansa andSerdican, as well as theTenerife Delegation of Taek-wondo.

The proceeds from ticketsales were donated to AMATE,the Tenerife Association ofWomen with Breast Cancer.

LAGUNA SERVICE

THOUSANDS of people of all ages are expectedto benefit from a new on-line sports registra-tion service introduced by La Laguna coun-

cil.

Signing upon-line

The sports departmentsays people will be able tosign and pay up for a widerange of activities withoutleaving their home. All theyhave to do is access the‘Actividades’ tag onwww.oadlaguna.com.

Sports councillor, Aymara

Calero said this coveredabout 50 types of sports andphysical activities, includingchess, BMX, yoga and even“ultimate frisbee”.

The council hopes this newservice will help even morepeople to enjoy sport in themunicipality.

WALKS, RUNS AND MORE

GRANADILLA is about to host its second weekdedicated to mountain sports.

“Mountainweek” inGranadilla

The local council’sdepartment of sport hasdecided to repeat the initiativefollowing the success of theinaugural event in 2012.

The activities are beingorganised in association withthe Granadilla MountainGroup and begin on Novem-ber 1st until 10th with aprogramme offering walks,open days on the climbingwall, lectures, documen-taries, climbing and hiking.

Sports councillor, GonzálezAlonso said it would be a verybusy week and would be areference for altitude sportson the island, aimed atamateurs and professionalsalike.

The idea is to use thearea’s natural resources andlarge network of trails whichwere highly suitable forrunning.

The schedule opens onNovember 1st with a climbingcompetition at Los Cardonesin San Isidro and the second“Ruta del Gofio” on Novem-ber 2nd for which 200 peoplehave already enrolled. Thiswill have two distances of10.5 and 19 kilometres andstarts at 10am.

There will be open days forthe climbing wall and rappelon November 4th, 5th and 6th ,a talk on November 7th, adocumentary on November8th about an epic ascent ofEverest and the third Canaryclimbing cup on November9th. There is also a walk for allon November 10th from 8am,admission fee three euros(telephone 922 75 99 93).

Everyone is being encou-raged to join in and you cansee the full programme onwww.granadilladeabona.org

REALEJOS CHALLENGE

LOS Realejos is preparing for a new edition of“Raid Multiaventura”.

Scene set for MultiaventuraThis ninth challenge

takes place on Saturday,November 2nd under theauspices of the local counciland Asociación Anima 2. Thedeadline for teams wasOctober 28th (through raidmul-tiaventuralosrealejos.blogs-pot.com.es).

Orientation, teamworkand lots of effort is requiredto carry out the challenges,with an early start of 6am todo the paperwork, followedby a 6.45am briefing to

explain the route and ananticipated off t ime of7.30am.

The Multiaventura com-bines a variety of trials throughvarious parts of the town withthe help of a map andcompass. There is a categoryfor beginners and for theadvanced and no specialexceptions are made ie. thereare no road closures and theteams choose their routes.Respect for the environment isa top priority.


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PARK SETTING

IF you haven’t been to Costa del Silencio for awhile, you will be in for a very pleasant sur-prise, especially if you like the open air, tennis

or bowls.

Happy Days for bowls andtennis

The beautiful Garananaparque has now beencompleted and this hasbrought an enormous boostto Happy Days, the tennis andbowling centre which has itsown restaurant, bar andterrace.

Michel and Christiane havebeen at the helm of HappyDays for 20 years and wellremember the days when itwas surrounded by barrenland, rough roads and paths.Not now! The area aroundHappy Days has beencompletely transformed andit now sits right in the heartof the park with its trees,bushes, flowers, network ofpaths and play/sport equip-ment.

Of course, they have

always had their loyalsupporters over the years butmore and more people arenow discovering them andenjoying playing tennis, bowlsor bridge or just enjoying ameal or drink and watchingothers.

“People ask me if we havebeen here long as they don’tremember seeing us,” saidMichel. “I laugh and say no,not long. Just 20 years!”

It’s lovely to see tennis andbowls being played in such abeautiful environment andMichael and Christiane doeverything they can to helpvisitors. Hire a court andtennis raquets and balls areprovided free of charge andyou can play bowls by thehour and hire shoes and

bowls if you need to. It’s agreat, sociable hobby andeven if you go along byyourself, you soon makefriends and keep healthy andactive at the same time.Various roll-up sessions areheld during the week ondifferent days so please dophone for details. No expe-rience is necessary.

Likewise, regular bridgesessions are held here andthat’s another brilliant way tomake friends.

The restaurant servessnacks but also a three-coursemeal for 5.95 euros betweennoon and 4pm and you don’thave to play. Just sit back and

relax. Everyone is welcome.There is a car-park as part

of the Happy Days complexbut if you can’t find it for thefirst time, just follow thesigns for the Garanana parkoff the long road throughCosta del Silencio (half waydown). You can park here andwalk along the new parkpathways to the bowls andtennis centre and you canthen see how to negotiate theone-way system to bring yourcar round next time.

If you would like anyfurther information, do

ring 922 786 831 or 699033 836.

SEASON CLOSES

TEGUESTE’S Olympic Athletic Club has closedits season with high praise for the past andgreat hopes for the future.

Athletic clubpraises shiningexamples

More than 100 people,including athletes, theirfamilies and officials, gathe-red at the IES Tegueste tohonour the best performances.Tribute was also paid to theathletes who had been shiningexamples during the 13 yearsof the club. They includedSimón Siverio, David Reyes,Francisco González, CarolinaGrassin, Moisés Cedrés,Adriana, Domínguez, LevíRodríguez, Silvia De León,David Cortijo, Alberto Reyes,Gisela Rivero and AyozeMolina.

President, Carlos Lorente

expressed his desire to main-tain the philosophy of the clubto work with young talent andmake athletics a tool fortraining and education invalues.

Andrés Torres, clubtrainer, also praised thequality of members andreviewed the results achie-ved, including runners-up inSpain for the male team inAntequera in April and theincrease in students in theClub School.

Those attending includedthe Mayor, José ManuelMolina.

CHEERLEADING SWEEP

THE Adeje cheerleaders “Los Tigres”virtually swept the board when theytook part in a top competition in Ma-

drid.The 28 athletes flew out from the south airport

to fly the flag in Spain’s first Cheer and Dance

Twelve trophiesfor the Tigers

Photo by Gerard Zenou

competition.There were two teams, one made

up of seven to eleven-year-olds andthe other representing the eleven to18 age group.

Between them, the groups entereda total of 12 categories in dance, tricksand routines and won a dozentrophies. They were placed first ineight of the routines and second infour, competing against teams fromBarcelona and Madrid. The Tigerscertainly made the Canary Islandsproud!

Their coaches Amanda Lambert,Zoe Mayo Harker and Tez Shackletonwere thrilled with the results and hopethis success will be the first of manyin Spanish competitions. Everyone hada brilliant time and were very welllooked after.


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